At the intersection of modernity and Art Brut, the Meiringen painter Hans Kohler created an incomparable body of work. Due to his intellectual disability, he was unable to meet the demands of everyday life, so all his strength and phenomenal talent flowed into painting. At the age of 23, encouraged by his mother, the laborer began to draw strange ornaments on lined writing paper. A Paul Klee book provided the crucial inspiration. Here he found an elemental vocabulary, which he soon transformed into his own visual language. Over the course of about 40 years of creative work, he produced a body of work of rare beauty and uniqueness. Reto Mettler has accompanied the painter since the 1990s and has made his work accessible through various exhibitions. He offers insight into the unassuming world of the painter on Meiringen's Sandstrasse, who introduces us to new, unseen images through his artwork.