The article examines the professional contacts of painter Hans Mattis Teutsch (1884-1960) with the Romanian avant-garde in all of their various forms. Educated in Budapest, Munich, Paris and Berlin, active in the circles around the Romanian cultural journals 'Ma', 'Contimporanul' and predominantly 'Integral' and the German journal 'Der Sturm'. From 1920 to 1936, H. M. Teutsch was one of the most significant figures of the Romanian avant-garde. Besides presenting works in a series of individual and collective exhibitions, he also arranged numerous contacts between the Romanian scene and other European avant-garde movements.