"What he liked to do: covered a broad spectrum indeed. Whether as a result of the imperative of the market,or his unique and eclectic artistic version, Möessel's range of subject matter and styles was diverse — characteristic of what has been cited by many historians as a broad "idiosyncratic current in Chicago art. As Robert Cozzolino has observed, "by the early 1930's several observers identified pluralism as a distinctive feature of the Chicago art scene. Susan Weinenger makes a similar point apropos of a group of Chicago artists who delved into the realm of fantasy and symbolism in their work between 1910 and 1945 (Möessel and his friends Carl Hoeckner and Louis Grell were included in this group) a trend referred to broadly as "fantasy art: Chicago artists of the "fantastic" were not part of one movement or formal group. Rather, they often moved easily from on stylistic mode to another. even from conservative to radical styles. Yet their common interest in creating an art based on the idiosyncrasies of individual personality and vision forged vital trend in Chicago. (From Peer to Obscurity, Mark Alvey.)