Gottfried Honegger

Gottfried Honegger ( born June 12, 1917 in Zurich ) is a Swiss graphic artist, painter and sculptor.

Life

Gottfried Honegger was born in 1917 in Zurich. As a child, he lived for a time in step frets Sent. From 1938 he worked as a commercial artist. During a three -year stay in New York City, he decided in 1958 to work as a freelance artist. From 1960 on he lived and worked in Paris, Cannes and Zurich, where he still lives today. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Varya Lavater.

Awards and honors

Gottfried Honegger in 1987 received the Zurich Art Prize. He was awarded et des Lettres by the Ordre des Arts by the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, Since 1999 he has been a member of the Legion of Honour. Max Frisch, with the Honegger was acquainted, dedicated his play triptych.

Work

Honegger is a representative of constructive and concrete art. Since the mid-60s he created sculptures and works for public space. This includes, for example, the installation Culur from the year 1997. Consists of nine metal columns in rainbow colors on the flood - protection wall at Order / Maloja, a tenth column is the education and Holiday Salecina. Honegger says about this work: " The work here in Maloja is for me a kind of symbiosis between the beautiful, the loving in itself and as an effort to give our eyes something that stimulates the mind, which obliged us to communion. The dialogue between a formidable nature, a useful technique and the spirit of the art seems to me to be entered into an ideal connection here. "

More of his works in public space are among others at the ETH Zurich (Volume 18, 1968, and structure 28, 1970), in Vaduz ( Division, 1989, and Monoform 29, 1991), on a roundabout in Bad Ragaz ( Etude Pliage, 1999), in the Sculpture Park Heidelberg ( Yellow Pliage C115, 2001) as well as on a roundabout in Hohenems ( 2005).

Honegger was in 1987 co-founded the " Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art Zurich ". Along with Sybil Albers- Barrier he founded in 1990 in Mouans -Sartoux on the French Côte d' Azur Espace de l'Art Concret ( space of concrete art ), 1997 he founded the Children's Studio type, research, imagination ( art, research there, imagination ) a. For the donation Donation Albers- Honegger architects Gigon Guyer and created there a museum was inaugurated in 2004 l' espace de l'Art Concret.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Note: To be marked with "K" shows a catalog was published.

Publications (selection )

  • Cercle et Carré. ( Circle and square. ) With texts by Gottfried Honegger, Dorothea van der Koelen, Gabriele Kübler. Documents of our time, Volume XIV ( German, English, French. ) Mainz, 1990, ISBN 3-926663-14-6.
  • From the image to the room. With texts by Gottfried Honegger, Martin van der Koelen and others ( German, English, French. ) Documents of our time, Volume XXI. Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-926663-21-9.
  • Gottfried Honegger - A Retrospective. Sculptures, reliefs, sculptures, exhibition April 8 to June 23 2000 Galerie Neher food, in collaboration with the gallery at the Linde site, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, with a text by Gottfried Honegger, Essen 2000
  • Invented and experienced. With a foreword by Dorothea van der Koelen. Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-931876-43-8.
  • Max Frisch. Elf portrait sketches. Fourteen texts in memory. Hotz, Steinhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522964-9-3.
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