Pierrette Favarger

Pierrette Favarger , married Pierrette Gsteiger-Favarger ( November 9, 1924 in Vevey - February 24, 2015 in Neuchâtel ), was a Swiss ceramist .

Life

Favarger was the daughter of the surveyor André-David and the bookseller Marguerite Favarger geb. Junod. From 1942 to 1944 she was trained as a ceramist at the Bern Ceramics School under Walter Burri and in 1945 as a sculptor at the Geneva School of Applied Arts under Maurice Sarkissoff . In 1951 she opened a studio in Bern, in 1960 in Peseux, and later in Neuchâtel.

She had been a member of the International Academy of Ceramics since it was founded in 1955. With her terracotta works , which testify to her interest in the human face, Favarger found her own style beyond all trends.

In 1956 she married the literary scholar Manfred Gsteiger .

literature

• Michèle Baeriswyl-Descloux : Pierrette Favarger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 27, 2015 .
• Favarger, Pierrette. In: Sikart (status: 2018), accessed on September 24, 2019.

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