Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (born 1944, Zurich, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (born , Zurich, Switzerland) [1] is a Swiss illustrator, watercolor painter and photographer whose work focuses on the intersection between art and science, zeroing in on the mutagenic effects of radiation on insects.
Describing herself as a 'science artist,' Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is a Swiss Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Numerous key galleries and museums such as EAC, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux have featured Cornelia Hesse-Honegger's work in the past.
Biography. 1985. Divorce from Swiss artist, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, finds and draws bugs deformed by Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents and exposures. By Claus-Peter Lieckfeld. We speak of “dumb creatures” because animal utterances are largely incomprehensible to the human ear. But animals can show us things.
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger works at Cornelia Hesse-Honegger calls herself a science artist. Her watercolours of deformed insects from contaminated regions around the world can be seen in numerous exhibitions, books and media reports. In October , she was awarded the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the category Enlightenment.
Born 1944 Zurich, Switzerland Cornelia Hesse-Honegger made her first trip in to collect true bugs in the environs of the Swiss nuclear power plants Gösgen und Leibstadt, in the Canton of Aargau. She found a big number of highly abnormal insects.
Born in Zurich, Switzerland Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (* November in Zurich) is a Swiss Scientific illustrator and visual and “knowledge artist”: Your insect -Pictures been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries.
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Cornelia Born in Zürich, Switzerland, worked as scientific illustrator for the University of Zürich for 25 years. Illustrations of Drosophila flies, wild forms and mutated until From on she discovered and started to paint true bugs (Heteroptera) and parts of flies (Diptera) developing her artistic work. Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is a Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is an artist based in Switzerland. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Scalo Gallery, New York, and Forum Schloss Platz in Aarau, Switzerland. Her work can be found in the book Heteroptera (Scalo, ).