Roger Pfund
Roger Pfund (28 December 1943 – 16 March 2024) was a Swiss graphic artist. • Illustration — The grave in 2024. In 1970–1971, Pfund won the currency design contest, hosted by the Swiss National Bank, for the design of a new series of bank notes. However another design was printed.
Also recorded as Roger Werner Pfund
Roger Pfund
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- Born
- 1943 · Bern.
- Died
- 2024 · Geneva.
- Nationality
- Switzerland · France
- Occupation
- painter · graphic designer · artist
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Languages
- French
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Roger Pfund (28 December 1943 – 16 March 2024) was an artist, graphic artist, painter and graphic designer.
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Roger Pfund was born in Bern, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The death is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Born at Bern in 1943, died in Geneva in 2024.
The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Geneva. Distinctions recorded are Officer of Arts and Letters.
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- 1.Le nouveau passeport suisse et la version remaniée de la carte d'identité seront disponibles dès le 1er janvier 2003. cConfédération suisse. 30 decembre 2002.
- 2.Septième série de billets de banque 1984. Banque nationale suisse.
- 3.Le graphiste Roger Pfund, «père du passeport suisse» s’est éteint à l’âge de 80 ans - Le Temps. Le Temps. 2024-03-17. 1423-3967. 2024-03-20.
- 4.Roger Pfund - travaux 1969-1999 - peinture graphisme design. Centre culturel suisse à Paris.
- 5.Clémence Vonlanthen. Roger Pfund, l'illustrateur du passeport suisse, s'est éteint à 81 ans. Radio télévision suisse. 2024-03-16.
- 6.L’atelier Roger Pfund en grandes difficultés. La tribune de Genève. 13. avril. 2016.
- 7.La culture et les arts à l’EPFL, Roger Pfund, aluminium peint (2010). École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. 2010.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Roland Aeschlimann. Musée d'art et d'histoire. Cabinet des estampes. Culture affichée : quatre graphistes genevois : Roland Aeschlimann, Georges Calame, Gérald Ducimetière, Roger Pfund : Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève, 1982, Genève : Le Musée, 1982.
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