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Gottfried Honegger
1917–2016
Zürich, Switzerland
PaintingGeometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
48
Works in Collection
103
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2
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Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
About
Why this artist matters now
Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss sculptor whose practice developed a vocabulary of geometric abstraction rooted in spatial experimentation and the interaction of light with sculptural mass. Working from the 1940s onward across concrete, metal, and other materials at multiple scales, he engaged modernist principles while maintaining a tactile, material-focused approach. Based in Zürich, his work emphasized the physical presence of form in space rather than representational content.
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