Constant Könz

Constant Könz (born 10 February 1929) is a Swiss painter, architect, and sgraffito artist. He is known for decorating houses in sgraffito all over Grisons.

Biography Könz was born in the village Zuoz in 1929. He is the son of the architect and author Iachen Ulrich Könz and Dora Geer. His father remarried with the author Selina Chönz in 1939 and the family moved to Guarda. His half brother was the artist . Könz grew up in Zuoz and Guarda.

The house in Guarda where Könz spent a part of his childhood.

After secondary education in the Cantonal School of Graubünden (1943–1947) Könz studied architecture in Zurich (1947–1952). He then studied at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (1952–1956) to become an art teacher. After a visit to Paris in 1957 Könz returned to Switzerland and worked as a teacher 1958–1961 at the Evangelische Mittelschule Schiers in Schiers.

Könz is a member of the Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler und Bildhauer und Architekten (GSMBA), present name VISARTE, since 1975.

2014 Kulturpreis Oberengadin (Culture Prize of Oberengadin)