Peter Moog (1871–1930) was a German outsider artist with schizophrenia, and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. Moog became a waiter and later a tavern owner, getting married in 1900 to a woman with whom he had three children.
In a surprising contrast to his verses, all of his paintings were of saints and religious images.
Figures are composed of many narrow strips, each decorated with its own ornamental pattern and each of a different color.
Moog displays the common outsider horror vacui, filling every space with decoration.
He painted saints in order to atone for his earlier sins, and renounced his earlier lifestyle, equating sexuality with sin and renouncing tobacco and alcohol during his years in the asylum.