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KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WARJA LAVATER

The initiators of this website are the descendants of Warja Lavater (Lavater Estate). The website gives an overview of the life and work of the artist, graphic designer, wife and mother and aims to make this versatility of Lavater accessible to the public. Warja Lavater was a storyteller, who was able to show her own and also the Swiss graphic and drawing traditions in an untraditional way with international foresight and humor. We love and miss her.

Imprint

Texts: Carol Ribi and Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (completed by Camil Hesse)
Web design: Camil Hesse
Programming and hosting: Sven Jaster, Gineta.net

Contact

Estate Warja Lavater
info@warjalavater.art

References

  • Carol Ribi, exhibition texts for the exhibition "Warja Lavater: Sing-Song-Signs & Folded Stories", March 3 to June 19, 2021, Zentralbibliothek Zurich
  • Carol Ribi, "Warja Lavater - Art for Zurich" in: k + a 2021.1
  • Carol Ribi, "Warja Lavater's Folded Stories. Werkgenese und Wirkungsästhetik" in: Christoph Benjamin Schulz (ed.): Die Geschichte(n) gefalteter Bücher: Leporellos, Livres-Accordéon und Folded Panoramas in Literatur und bildder Kunst. 596 p., with 189 mostly col. ill. hardcovers. Olms, 2019.
  • Carol Ribi, "Spaces of the 'Graphic': Warja Lavater's Symbolic Notations and Art Books." In 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Art. Ed. v. Christian Brändle ... [et al.], Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2014, pp. 306-309.
  • Warja Lavater, Pictograms; Courtesy Birgitte Weiss Gallery, Zurich; Nieves, 2008.
  • Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler, German Seminar, University of Zurich (https://lavater.com).

Press

Selection of press articles about Warja Lavater:

News

Exhibition in Basel: “Rid the Grid: Swiss graphic artists 1900-1980” Exhibition room of the School of Design in Basel, Dreispitz area 19.09. 2024 to October 6, 2024

Archive

Publications by and about Warja Lavater and part of her work are stored in the archives of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. The Central Library also administers a large part of the bequest, which can be made accessible there on request. The person in charge is Mr. Jochen Hesse.

In the archive of the Swiss National Museum, parts of Lavater's children's books and other artifacts are stored and are shown to the public for exhibitions.

In the eMuseum, the online archive of the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, pictures and works of the Atelier Honegger-Lavater can be viewed.

 

Legal

We are pleased about the interest in the artist Warja Lavater. We would like to bring her work and her life closer to the public and invite exhibition organizers, promoters and the press to contact us, the descendants, via info@warjalavater.art. It is important to us that the copyright of Warja Lavater remains intact and that both her work and her person remain protected. The rights of Warja Lavater are managed and secured by ProLitteris.

For exhibition organizers we provide here a contract on the exhibition conditions of original pictures (in German).