Simone Erni
Simone Erni (* 1946 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss painter , designer and commercial artist . She designed, among other things, wine labels, phone cards, posters, etc. like. And she designed art books. Landscapes and cities are a theme of her artistic work.
life and work
Simone Erni was born in Lucerne in 1946 as the daughter of the Swiss painter and sculptor Hans Erni and Gertrud Erni-Bohnerts. She studied at the teacher training college in Lucerne and then at the “École des Beaux Arts” in Geneva . Early 80s laid Simone Erni, her husband Raphael Fornara and son Franco residing in the United States and lived in Palm Springs ( California ). Since returning to Switzerland, she has lived in Lugano. Her pictures and lithographs have been exhibited in many galleries in Switzerland and abroad.
Art projects
Various projects followed, including a lithograph series with animals from the arena of the Swiss National Circus Knie , a triptych for the Altenberg Cathedral Association in Germany with the theme "The life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux ". In 1988 the Fornara-Erni couple opened one in Lucerne Gallery. At the end of 1994, Erni turned to modeling reliefs . At the Kunstgewerbeschule in Geneva she studied sculpture for a year and created two reliefs for Carnival in Lucerne in 1995, which are depicted on her first medal. In 2004 some of the portraits of great Swiss personalities of the 20th century were shown for the first time in Lucerne. In 2005 he created drawings and paintings related to the Lucerne carnival scene. Many of the works are commissions from Lucerne personalities of the various guilds.
Promotional graphics
Erni worked as a commercial graphic artist for a number of Swiss companies and institutions. She designed a series of stone lithographs with the patron saints of doctors, dentists and pharmacists for the pharmaceutical company Pharmaton in Bioggia, a festival beer label for the Zurich brewery Hürlimann and a twelve-part fresco on the facade of the Gambrinus, painted using the traditional technique of mineral colors. House in Lucerne with the topic "History of the art of beer brewing"
For the seven-centenary of the Swiss Confederation in 1991, she designed the wine labels for the official festival wines. In 1992 Erni was the first artist in Switzerland to create clip-on size works. She designed various templates on the subjects of circus, peace, bacchants , guilds , carnival and mythology , which were then pressed into brass and hand-colored with enamel . In 1994 she created, among other things, a lithograph and tax cards for Zurich insurance companies and the FMH service on the subject of “The human being in harmony”. This was followed by a series of tax cards for the pharmaceutical company Mepha in Aesch near Basel, for the Zurich insurance companies the theme of carnival and on the occasion of the anniversary “125 years of the Langenberg Zoo”. In the same year, wine labels for the Valais wine Pinot Noir de Salquenen appeared . There were also a number of tax cards, medals and lithographs. After a picture for Canon Switzerland and a work, "Mövenflug (Wintermorgen am Vierwaldstättersee)" in favor of UNICEF , which Mövenpick commissioned, Simone Erni is working on 7 CD covers along with the portraits for the "Exhibition 2000" -Designs commissioned by SSC Selected Sound Carrier AG for a music CD.
In 1999 she designed two underplates for the company Gastroworld , which advertised the millennium year with the motifs . In spring 2003 Simone Erni created a home fashion collection, bed linen and beach towels. In the summer of 2003, the lithograph was created for the Laurana Foundation, depicting different women who symbolize the various aspects of the Foundation. In 2006 Simone Erni designed templates for casino chips , until 2007 more than 20 different motifs. In 2008 she designed a color lithograph as a poster for the Federal Yodelling Festival in Lucerne.
Publications
- "Say about Malters ",
- "Sketches around Lucerne"
- "Lugano and its surroundings".
- "Venezia, impressions of the carnival ". Illustrated book. 1990.
- "Art & Cooking", together with Raphael Fornara, 1995
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erni, Simone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |