Gottfried Honegger Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Sculptor, b. 1917 - d. 2016

Gottfried Honegger (12 June 1917 – 17 January 2016) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer.[1] 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.[2]

From 1955-1958 he was art director at Geigy.[3] He lived in New York City between 1958 and 1960, and held his first exhibition there.[2] In 1961 he moved to Paris and concentrated on painting, which concentrated on exacting explorations of circles and squares,[4] and (from 1968), sculpture.[2]

Honegger also spent time in Dallas, Texas as the artist in residence at the University of Dallas.[4] Honegger died at his home in Zürich, Switzerland from a short-illness on 17 January 2016, aged 98.