About Gottfried Honegger
Lived 1917 – 2016 (aged 98). Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss painter, printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and collector.
Gottfried Honegger (12 June 1917, Zurich – 17 January 2016, Zurich) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer.
He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design. He lived in New York City between 1958 and 1960, and held his first exhibition there. In 1961 he moved to Paris and concentrated on painting with focus on exacting explorations of circles and squares. From 1968, he worked on sculpture.
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Who was Gottfried Honegger?
Swiss artist (1917–2016)
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Gottfried Honegger was born on 12 June 1917 in Zurich.
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Gottfried Honegger died on 17 January 2016 in Zurich.
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Gottfried Honegger was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist and collector.
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Gottfried Honegger was Swiss.
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