Cornelia hesse-honegger biography examples

          Describing herself as a 'science artist,' she worked for 25 years, as a scientific illustrator for the Natural History Museum at the University..

          Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

          Swiss illustrator and photographer

          Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

          Born1944

          Zurich, Switzerland

          EducationUniversity of Zurich
          Known forillustration and photography of mutated insects
          Stylewatercolor

          Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (born 1944, 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.

          For over two decades she has worked as a scientific illustrator at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

          Swiss artist, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, finds and draws bugs deformed by Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents and exposures.

        1. Swiss artist, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, finds and draws bugs deformed by Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents and exposures.
        2. Her work appeared to strongly indicate widespread evidence of deformations in insects in areas that scientists had claimed were not affected by nuclear fallout.
        3. Describing herself as a 'science artist,' she worked for 25 years, as a scientific illustrator for the Natural History Museum at the University.
        4. Describing herself as a 'science artist,' she worked for 25 years, as a scientific illustrator for the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich.
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          6. Education

          Hesse-Honegger worked as an apprentice illustrator in the 1960s with professor Hans Burla of the Zoological Institute University of Zurich.

          Work

          In 1969, she began collecting and producing watercolor paintings of true bugs.

          In the mid-1970s she began to paint leaf bugs, spiders and beetles, and in 1985, she began to paint mu