Gottfried Honegger

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

Gottfried Honegger (1995)

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 to 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 with focus on exacting explorations of circles and squares.^[4] From 1968, he worked on 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. He was 98 at the time of his death.^[5]