Roger pound
Roger Pfund (born December 28, 1943 in Bern ) is a Swiss graphic and graphic designer .
life and work
Roger Pfund trained as a graphic designer at the arts and crafts school in Bern. He completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer with Kurt Wirth . In 1966, 1967 and 1968 he received the Swiss Federal grant for applied arts. Since 1969 there has been a free artistic collaboration with Elisabeth Pfund .
In 1970/1971 Roger and Elisabeth Pfund took part in the competition to design new banknotes. However, since the Swiss National Bank finally decided in favor of Ernst & Ursula Hiestand's notes , the designs by Roger and Elisabeth Pfund were only used for the design of the reserve series of banknotes (so-called seventh issue ). In 1972 the drafts for new banknotes for the Swiss National Bank were shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel in the department Parallel Imagery: Social Iconography .
Roger Pfund also designed other banknote series, such as the last banknote series from France, the Argentine banknote with the portrait of Evita Peron and the current banknote series from the Comoros . He was also one of 29 artists who, together with Robert Kalina , had submitted a draft for the euro.
In addition, Pfund designed the new Swiss passport, which has been in circulation since 2003.
Roger Pfund is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale AGI. He is also active as a painter , graphic designer, photographer and illustrator . He lives in Lenk in the Simmental .
Exhibitions
- 2015: Roger Pfund: Dimension absurd , Museum Wiesbaden .
literature
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today . Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.): Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 . Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
- Pfund, Roger: Tome III , Orell Füssli Verlag AG, 2006. ISBN 3-280-05209-2
Web links
- Artist's website
- Literature by and about Roger Pfund in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Roger Pfund in the documenta archive
- Swiss National Bank
- Pound, roger. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pound, roger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss graphic artist and graphic designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |