Karl Lukas Honegger

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Karl Lukas Honegger (born August 14, 1902 in Zurich ; † January 27, 2003 in Herrliberg ), entitled to live in Zurich, was a Swiss painter and sculptor .

Life

Karl Lukas Honegger was the son of the commercial employee Wilhelm Albert Honegger and his wife Luise, born Wahlich, from Graslitz in Austria-Hungary . He was baptized Reformed and converted to the Catholic Church in 1926 .

From 1919 to 1922 he completed an apprenticeship as a theater painter in Zurich. Karl Lukas Honegger also studied at various art schools, including from 1923 to 1926 at the art college in Berlin . He also attended the drawing class with Maximilian Klewer . From 1947 to 1951 he completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor with Alfons Magg.

In 1923 Karl Lukas Honegger moved to Germany . There he lived alternately in Berlin, Nauen and Lebus and worked as a church and portrait painter.

In 1938 Karl Lukas Honegger married the German Anna Philippine, daughter of Karl Schröder.

Despite internal rejection of the Nazi regime , Honegger remained in the German Reich until 1944 because of the painting orders and his German family members and friends. He then returned to Switzerland, where he lived as a freelance artist, first in Fontanivent ob Clarens in the municipality of Montreux , and then from 1945 in Zollikon . In 1971 he moved to Herrliberg, where he ran his own ceramic school from 1977. He also taught for many years as a drawing and ceramics teacher at the Migros Club School in Zurich. Honegger widowed in 1979.

At the Limmat Foundation , which is close to Opus-Dei , Honegger established the patronage Karl Lukas Honegger in 1993 as an endowment to secure the future of his extensive work.

Karl Lukas Honegger's figurative, Christian-religiously inspired oeuvre , who was particularly successful in Germany as a portraitist , expresses a conservative attitude and developed independently of avant-garde tendencies.

publication

  • My life and work: painter and sculptor against the zeitgeist . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein, 1990

literature

  • Karl Lukas Honegger, 1902–2003: A Swiss in Germany. An artist against the zeitgeist . Institut et Musée des Suisses dans le Monde Geneva, Editions de Penthes, [Sl] 2003
  • Verena Füllemann, Hugo Loetscher , Mark Füllemann: Die Weltkunst Hirmer, Munich 2004, volume 75, issues 1–4, p. 83.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website patronage KL Honegger
personal data
SURNAME Honegger, Karl Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2003
Place of death Herrliberg