What is Gottfried Honegger?
[[File:Gottfried Honegger (1995).png|thumb|right|Gottfried Honegger (1995)]] '''Gottfried Honegger''' (12 June 1917 &ndash; 17 January 2016) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[artist]] and [[graphic designer]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Abram Lerner|author2=Linda Nochlin|title=The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution|date=1970|publisher=H. N. Abrams|isbn=0810990113}}</ref> From 1955 through 1958, he was art director at [[Geigy]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hollis |first=Richard |title=Swiss Graphic Design: The origins and growth of an international style, 1920 - 1965 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2006 |page=159 |isbn=0-300-10676-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G06qUE2Mr68C&dq=%22Gottfried+Honegger%22&pg=PA159}}</ref> He worked at the [[University of Dallas]] until his death in 2016. Honegger was born in [[Zürich]], Switerland. He was married to the Swiss illustrator [[Warja Honegger-Lavater|Warja Lavater]]. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich [[Kunstgewerbeschule]] and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial [[graphic design]]. Honegger died at his home in Zürich, Switzerland from a short-illness, aged 98.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landbote.ch/schweiz/Kuenstler-Gottfried-Honegger-mit-98-Jahren-gestorben/story/25865987|title=Künstler Gottfried Honegger mit 98 Jahren gestorben|publisher=Landbote.ch|access-date=18 January 2016}} {{in lang|de}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat}} * [http://www.artnet.com/artist/133480/gottfried-honegger.html Gottfried Honegger on artnet] * Gottfried Honegger by [[Museo Cantonale d’Arte]] von [[Lugano]] [http://www.e-mca.ti.ch/lugano/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t2.artist_list.$TspTitleLink$0.link&sp=10&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=1&sp=3&sp=SsimpleList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=13] {{DEFAULTSORT:Honegger, Gottfried}} [[Category:1917 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Swiss academics]] [[Category:Artists from Zürich]] [[Category:20th-centur