BIOGRAFIE
1917 | born in Zürich, Switzerland |
1932 | Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, Switzerland, at the age of 15 |
1937 | teaches at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich, Switzerland |
1958 | works as a designer very successfully in New York, NY |
1960 | returns to Europe. Uses the studio of Sam Francis in Paris, France |
1972 | first monography for his 50th birthday |
2016 | gestorben in Zürich |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2001 | Member of the "Légion d'honneur" in France |
1990 | Inauguration of his "Espaces de l'art Concret" in Mouans-Sartoux, France |
1985 | "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" from Jack Lang the French minister of culture |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Adliswil-Zürich, Swiss Re Braunschweig, Landeszentralbank Niedersachsen Université de Dijon Genf, Collège Voltaire Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Lille, Jardin botanique Maloja, Krone der Hochwasser- Rückhaltemauer Mouans-Sartoux, Espace de l’Art Concret Collège Nevers (F) Nevers, Cathédrale de St- Cyr, Glasfenster Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou Reutlingen, Stiftung für konkrete Kunst Santa Cruz, Teneriffa Toulon, Parc de Mourillon Tulsa (USA), First National Tower Schulhaus Vilmergen Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich, ETH Hönggerberg, Alfred-Altherr-Terrasse Zürich, Bahnhof Stettbach Zürich, Universität Irchel Zürich, Waidspital |
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