Niklaus Troxler

Niklaus Troxler (born May 1, 1947 in Willisau ) is a Swiss graphic artist. Since the late 1960s he has been organizing jazz events on a regular basis and in 1975 he founded the Willisau Jazz Festival , which he also directed until 2010.

Troxler studied at the Lucerne School of Design . After working as Art Director in Paris (1972), he founded his own graphics studio in Willisau. He has been organizing jazz concerts in Willisau since 1966, and an annual international jazz festival since 1975, for which he regularly designs posters and record covers - for example for Irène Schweizer .

He received important international design prizes such as the Toulouse Lautrec Medal in Gold (1987 and 1994), the Grand Prix and First Prizes in Lahti / Finland 1993, at the Chaumont Festival de l'affiche (1992), in Helsinki / Finland 1995, Hong Kong 2000, Hangzhou / China 2002, Ningbo / China 2006, Taiwan 2005, Colorado / USA 2006. In 1982 he was awarded the Central Switzerland Culture Prize.

Troxler is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale . His posters are represented in the most important international design collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama / Japan, the Museum of Art and Crafts in Hamburg, the German Poster Museum in Essen and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

From 1998 to 2013 he taught as a professor for communication design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

Publications

• Jazz Blvd. - Niklaus Troxler posters . Müller, Baden / Switzerland 1999, ISBN 3-907044-90-8 .
• Niklaus Troxler and Olivier Senn: "Willisau and All That Jazz". Till Schaap Edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-03828-000-2 .

Filmography

• Niklaus Troxler - Jazz in Willisau - A life with jazz and graphic design Documentary by Angelo A. Lüdin and Barbara Zürcher (2010, 75 minutes, point-de-vue).

literature

• Jianping He (Ed.): Niklaus Troxler - Design Master . Page One, Singapore 2006, ISBN 981-245426-8 .
• Roxane Jubert (Ed.): Niklaus Troxler - Designer & Design . Pyramyd, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35017-054-1 .
• Niklaus Troxler . Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo 2007, ISBN 978-4-88752-365-4 .
• Alain Weill: Encyclopédie de l'affiche : Éditions Hazan, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7541-0582-8 , p. 262 m. Fig.

Web links

• Literature by and about Niklaus Troxler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Niklaus Troxler
• Interview with Niklaus Troxler in the NZZ Folio magazine

Individual evidence

1. ^ History - Willisau Jazz Festival . In: Willisau Jazz Festival . ( jazzfestivalwillisau.ch [accessed on February 5, 2017]).
2. ↑ Dieter Bachmann: Jazz Blvd. Niklaus Troxler posters. Lars-Muller, CH-Baden 1999. ISBN 3-907044-90-8 . Discussion on poster page , with images, accessed on March 26, 2013.