Gottfried Honegger

Swiss artist (1917-2016)

Gottfried Honegger (12 June 1917 – 17 January 2016) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer.[1] From 1955 through 1958, he was art director at Geigy.[2] He worked at the University of Dallas until his death in 2016.

Gottfried Honegger (1995)

Honegger was born in Zürich, Switerland. 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. Honegger died at his home in Zürich, Switzerland from a short-illness, aged 98.[3]

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  1. Abram Lerner; Linda Nochlin (1970). The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. H. N. Abrams. ISBN 0810990113.
  2. Hollis, Richard (2006). Swiss Graphic Design: The origins and growth of an international style, 1920 - 1965. Yale University Press. p. 159. ISBN 0-300-10676-9.
  3. "Künstler Gottfried Honegger mit 98 Jahren gestorben". Landbote.ch. Retrieved 18 January 2016. (in German)

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