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Gottfried Honegger

1917 - 2016

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Gottfried Honegger (12 June 1917, Zurich – 17 January 2016, Zurich) was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gottfried Honegger is the 1,737th most popular painter (up from 1,851st in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 562nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Swiss Painter.

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Among painters, Gottfried Honegger ranks 1,737 out of 2,023. Before him are Marie Spartali Stillman, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Alexander Brullov, Francesco Clemente, Karl Bodmer, and László Paál. After him are Vassily Maximov, Nikolay Kasatkin, Carl Frederik von Breda, Henry Scott Tuke, William Dobson, and Jean-Paul Riopelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Gottfried Honegger ranks 252. Before him are Kamal Ranadive, Melville Shavelson, Charles Sibley, Gösta Andersson, Mikhail Devyataev, and Kriangsak Chamanan. After him are Edgar Barth, Joseph Wresinski, Nils Karlsson, Amelia Piccinini, Marcel Hansenne, and Robert Lowell. Among people deceased in 2016, Gottfried Honegger ranks 346. Before him are Velimir Sombolac, Daniela Dessì, Kurt Svensson, Manfred Krug, Eri Klas, and Pierre Tchernia. After him are Jim Harrison, Joe Sutter, Norbert Schemansky, Ruth Leuwerik, Lutz D. Schmadel, and Bülent Eken.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Honegger ranks 515 out of 1,015. Before him are Mauro Gianetti (1964), Heinz Hermann (1958), Kurt Armbruster (1934), Paul Scherrer (1890), Martin Suter (1948), and Karl Bodmer (1809). After him are Kurt Furgler (1924), Ludwig von Moos (1910), Pier Francesco Mola (1612), Willy Jäggi (1906), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Gottfried Honegger ranks 30. Before him are Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Salomon Gessner (1730), Hans Erni (1909), Cuno Amiet (1868), Antonio Ciseri (1821), and Karl Bodmer (1809). After him are Pier Francesco Mola (1612), Pipilotti Rist (1962), Elizabeth Thompson (1846), and Milo Moiré (1986).

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