Gottfried Honegger – Space: The Architecture of the Universe.

Space: The Architecture of the Universe / Volume 1 of the Visual series, 1962
Text by Dr. Peter de Kamp of Sproul Observatory and Swarthmore College
Artwork by Gottfried Honegger

From the back cover:
Space investigates the most ancient of sciences, astronomy,
as it illuminates the most modern and significant of relationships,
that of man to his expanded universe.

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Visuals, A New Series of Scientific Books
Written by Frédéric Distis/ Graphis 98, 1961

We show here examples from the first issues in a new series of pocket books called Visuals, which represents a fruitful contact between art and science in the growing field of mass communications.

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In Visuals, the artist becomes the author, he has to sense his theme and understand it from inside. The men of science, the expert and researcher, initiate him into their disciplines and provide a brief accompanying text, giving the essential facts, as a supplement to his projection of the subject in visual form. As the work for the first books progressed, it became clear that the artist is able to penetrate science to unexpected depths, experiencing and expressing it with a passion that grips the observer’s spirit as well as his understanding.

Gottfried Honegger was born in Switzerland in 1917 and educated at the Zurich Arts and Crafts School. In 1940 he married illustrator Warja Honegger-Lavater. Honegger’s earliest work was graphic design and in the fifties he served as art director for Geigy. In the 1960s he began to concentrate on abstract painting and then sculpture. The images shared here are all from the early 1950s and utilize the geometric forms that took on greater prominence in Honegger’s later artwork.

Bio excerpt above republished from an earlier Honegger feature on AQ-V:
>> Gottfried Honegger – Commercial Art, 1950s

[ Image sources: Visual Volume 1 book, published January 1962 +  Graphis 98 1961 ]

>> Gottfried Honegger flickr set
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Sandi Vincent grew up in the bay area of California surrounded by mid-century modern architecture and other influences responsible for her affinity for the period and its pop style, including her early exposure to The Monkees, The Avengers and Gerald McBoing-Boing. Sandi now resides in Portland and is a board member of a local nonprofit preservation group, the Mid-Century Modern League. In her day job at a community foundation, she sports the web/social media/print materials coordinator title.

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