The Tomi Ungerer Museum is dedicating its first solo exhibition at a French institution to Anna Sommer. She is the 2024 winner of the Max and Moritz Prize, which honors the best German-language comic book author.
Over the past few decades, Swiss artist Anna Sommer has developed a highly personal style of storytelling through images. From her collage portraits to her short illustrated stories, comic strips, and humorous engravings, her works always offer a revealing insight that opens the door to humor, unease, or another layer of meaning.
Anna Sommer dissects human relationships, romantic conflicts, as well as our desires, roles, and identities with the same precision with which she cuts paper with a craft knife to create vast, colorful assemblages.
As part of this carte blanche, the artist has explored the collection and works of Tomi Ungerer, as well as the collections of Strasbourg’s museums, which she brings into dialogue with her own work.
Over the past few decades, Swiss artist Anna Sommer has developed a highly personal style of storytelling through images. From her collage portraits to her short illustrated stories, comic strips, and humorous engravings, her works always offer a revealing insight that opens the door to humor, unease, or another layer of meaning.
Anna Sommer dissects human relationships, romantic conflicts, as well as our desires, roles, and identities with the same precision with which she cuts paper with a craft knife to create vast, colorful assemblages.
As part of this carte blanche, the artist has explored the collection and works of Tomi Ungerer, as well as the collections of Strasbourg’s museums, which she brings into dialogue with her own work.
