Gottfried Honegger

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Gottfried Honegger (1995)
Installation Culur at Maloja

Gottfried Honegger (born June 12, 1917 in Zurich ; † January 17, 2016 there ) was a Swiss graphic artist , painter and sculptor .

Life

Gottfried Honegger was born in Zurich in 1917. As a child, he lived for a time in Sent in Graubünden . From 1938 he worked as a commercial artist . When Eduard Zimmermann suffered a stroke in 1944 and had to finish his artistic sculpting work, Honegger took over his studio in Zollikon . During a three-year stay in New York City , he decided to work as a freelance artist in 1958. From 1960 he lived and worked in Paris , Cannes and Zurich, where he also died in January 2016 at the age of 98. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater .

Awards and honors

Gottfried Honegger received the Zurich Art Prize in 1987. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture, Jack Lang . Since 1999 he was a member of the Legion of Honor . Max Frisch , with whom Honegger was on friendly terms, dedicated his play Triptychon to him .

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Honegger was a representative of constructive - concrete art. He has been creating sculptures and works for public spaces since the mid-1960s. This includes, for example, the installation Culur from 1997. It consists of nine metal columns in the rainbow colors on the flood protection wall near Orden / Maloja, a tenth column is at the Salecina Education and Holiday Center . Honegger said of this work: “For me, the work here in Maloja is something like a symbiosis between the beautiful, the loving in oneself and the effort to offer our eyes something that stimulates thought, that obliges us to community. The dialogue between a mighty nature, a useful technique and the spiritual of art seems to me to have entered into an ideal connection. "

Other 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 traffic circle in Bad Ragaz ( Etude Pliage , 1999), in the Heidelberg Sculpture Park ( Gelben Pliage C115 , 2001) and on a traffic roundabout in Hohenems (2005).

In 1987 Honegger co-founded the “Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art Zurich”. Together with Sybil Albers-Barrier (1935–2019) he founded the Espace de l'Art Concret (space of concrete art) in Mouans-Sartoux on the French Côte d'Azur in 1990, and in 1997 he set up the children's atelier Art, Recherche, Imagination (Art, research, imagination) . For the Donation Albers-Honegger donation , the architects Gigon and Guyer created a museum building called Espace de l'Art Concret, which was inaugurated in 2004 .

For St. Paul's Cathedral in Liège , Honegger designed eighteen upper windows for the central and transepts. The windows were made as a glass mosaic with a copper frame in Gabriel Loire's studio in Chartres and installed in the church in 2013 and 2014.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Note: a catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with a «K».

Works in museums (selection)

  • New Gallery Kassel

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 image to space. With texts by Gottfried Honegger, Martin van der Koelen and others, Documents of Our Time, Volume XXI. (German, English, French.) Chorus-Verlag, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-926663-21-9 .
  • Art is a fruit from the tree of knowledge. Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-931876-34-9 .
  • Gottfried Honegger - A retrospective. Pictures, reliefs, sculptures. Exhibition April 8 - June 23, 2000, Galerie Neher Essen, in cooperation with the Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, with a text by Gottfried Honegger. Food 2000.
  • Invented and experienced. With a foreword by Dorothea van der Koelen. Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-931876-43-8 .
  • Max Frisch. Eleven portrait sketches. Fourteen texts to remember. Hotz, Steinhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522964-9-3 .

literature

  • Michael Gnehm (Ed.): Gottfried Honegger. Working in public space. gta, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85676-207-0 .
  • Emil Schwarz: Anyone could be an artist, homage to Gottfried Honegger. A poetic journey through time with the essay On the Elementary of Art . NAP, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9521434-7-6 .
  • Ruedi Christen: Gottfried Honegger, " I don't live in memories, often not even in the present, but above all I'm interested in the future." Limmat Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85791-843-8

Movies

  • Gottfried Honegger - Setting standards and shaping the world. By Emil Schwarz (director), Rafael Koller (camera), Raoul Meier (editor) and Roman Meyer (production), in collaboration with Haus Konstruktiv Zurich and Museum Liner Appenzell. DVD, www.nap.ch, Zurich 2007.
  • Gottfried Honegger - on doit construire le monde. TV documentary by Roman Meyer, 2010.
  • Get creative. Folk art campaign in Flühli Sörenberg. DVD 24 min / www.nap.ch.
  • For a beautiful world . Film portrait of Erich Langjahr .
  • Gottfried Honegger - 8 reflections on the elucidation of art. DVD, NAP Verlag, Zurich.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist Gottfried Honegger died at the age of 98
  2. ↑ Gottfried Honegger - Culur . ( Memento of the original of September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 4, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culur.ch
  3. ^ Sculpture inaugurated by Gottfried Honegger. In: ETH Life , May 18, 2009, accessed on February 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ Gelben Pliage C115 (2001), Gottfried Honegger's work in the Heidelberg Sculpture Park. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  5. ^ Gottfried Honegger in the Otten art room . At kunstmarkt.com, accessed on February 4, 2011.
  6. ↑ The project on the architects' website.
  7. ↑ Hubertus Adam: Fifteen rooms form a tower. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 30, 2004, accessed on March 16, 2019 (report on the new building.).
  8. ^ History of the Espace de l'Art Concret
  9. ↑ according to the display boards in front of the windows, St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège
  10. ↑ set standards and create world - Gottfried Honegger , on www.nap.ch . Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  11. ↑ Description of the production company. Accessed on February 4, 2011.
  12. ↑ Get creative on www.nap.ch. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ For a beautiful world at www.langjahr-film.ch . ISAN 0000-0003-F81A-0000-X-0000-0000-C.
  14. ↑ 8 Reflections on the Enlightenment of Art on www.nap.ch. Retrieved January 22, 2016.

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SURNAME Honegger, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2016
Place of death Zurich