Beatrice Afflerbach

Beatrice "Bea" Afflerbach-Hefti (born June 14, 1920 in Basel , Switzerland ; † March 3, 2003 in Binningen ) was a Swiss graphic designer .

Life

Beatrice Afflerbach-Hefti studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel with Walter Bodmer , Theo Eble and Julia Ris, among others , and was the first woman to graduate with a graphic design diploma in 1941. After completing her studies, she founded an office in 1942 with Sita Jucker and her future husband Ferdinand "Ferdi" Afflerbach, in which commercially successful commercial graphics were created.

Afflerbach-Hefti was involved in the women's rights movement. In 1957 she was one of the founding members of the Soroptimist International Club Basel, a club of working women that supports charitable projects around the world. She designed posters for women’s suffrage and took part in the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Labor in 1958 .

Beatrice Afflerbach-Hefti was a member of the board of the Kunstverein Binningen from 1972 to 1986.

The couple's estate is in the poster collection of the Basel School of Design .

Works

Maria Aebersold : Reserved for Basler. Illustrations by Beatrice Afflerbach. Pharos, Basel 1961, DNB 363268375 .
Hanni Salfinger: The wing dress. Bettinger storybook. Illustrations by Beatrice Afflerbach. Schudel, Riehen 1972, ISBN 978-3-85895-722-1 .
Elisabeth Klein: The Origin of the World and the Stars. Indian and other legends. With a multi-colored poster by Beatrice Afflerbach. Novalis, Schaffhausen 1976, ISBN 978-3-7214-7003-1 .
Miggeli Aebersold: S 'fee and other Baseldytschi history. Illustrations by Beatrice Afflerbach. Pharos, Basel 1977, ISBN 978-3-7230-0083-0 .

literature

Eberhard Hölscher : Ferdi and Beatrice Afflerbach. In: Usage graphics . Volume 25, Issue 2, 1954, pp. 26–33 ( online ).
Julia Meer: Afflerbach, Beatrice. Short biography. In: Gerda Breuer , Julia Meer (eds.): Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , p. 395.

Web links

Miriam Baumeister: Beatrice Afflerbach-Hefti in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
Beatrice Afflerbach. In: Sikart (as of: 2018)Template: SIKART / Lemma not specified

Individual evidence

^ Afflerbach, Beatrice. In: Birgit Eberhard: Women in focus. An encyclopedia about well-known and famous, important and remarkable women from Germany, Austria and Switzerland today. Steinheim, Munich 1985, DNB 966237862 , p. 10 ( online ).
↑ Regina Wecker : I am the state! What is that to women? In: Georg Kreis (ed.): The Basler Frauenstimmrecht. The long road to political equality from 1966. Merian, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85616-818-6 , pp. 127–147, here p. 145, footnote 25 ( online ).
^ The board members of the Kunstverein Binningen 1962–2018 on kunstvereinbinningen.ch

personal data
SURNAME	Afflerbach, Beatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Afflerbach-Hefti, Beatrice; Hefti, Beatrice (maiden name); Afflerbach-Hefti, Bea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 2003
Place of death	Binningen

[1] Afflerbach, Beatrice. In: Birgit Eberhard: Women in focus. An encyclopedia about well-known and famous, important and remarkable women from Germany, Austria and Switzerland today. Steinheim, Munich 1985, DNB 966237862 , p. 10 ( online ).

[2] Regina Wecker : I am the state! What is that to women? In: Georg Kreis (ed.): The Basler Frauenstimmrecht. The long road to political equality from 1966. Merian, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85616-818-6 , pp. 127–147, here p. 145, footnote 25 ( online ).

[3] The board members of the Kunstverein Binningen 1962–2018 on kunstvereinbinningen.ch