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(* 1892 in Carouge near Geneva; † 1980 in Wald, Zurich) enrolled after a four-year joinery apprenticeship with Karl Mayer in Stuttgart in 1911 in the course for furniture and interior design at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal School of Arts and Crafts) in Stuttgart where he became a student in the master class taught by Bernhard Pankok. On the side he made drawings and paintings that veered towards abstraction. In 1918 he was accepted into the Deutsche Werkbund (a German association of artists, designers and industrialists) and took part in the exhibitions of the association. In 1933 Graeser returned to Switzerland where he turned his attention to Geometric Abstraction. He made large-scale, strictly systematic, abstract paintings using few but variantly manipulated geometric elements, picture grounds and strikingly bright colours. Since 1950 Graeser, together with Bill, Loewenberg and Lohse, has been considered one of the leading representatives of Concrete Art in Switzerland.