documentation

Literature
Swiss painting. 70 paintings from the 18th to the 20th century. Zuoz, Chesa Planta; Zurich, Galerie Dr. Schenk, 1991. Introduction: Kristina Piwecki. Zurich, 1991 Walter Jonas. Painter, thinker, urbanist. Editor: Heinrich E. Schmid; Texts: Horst Becker [et al.]. 2nd edition. Zurich: Atlantis, 1985
Alfred A. Häsler: Outsiders, insiders. Portraits from Switzerland. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1983
Michel Ragon: Where will we live tomorrow? People and the environment. The city of the future. Munich: Georg D. W. Callwey, 1967
Walter Jonas: The Intra House. Vision of a city. Zurich: Origo, 1962
Walter Jonas: How to look at a modern work of art. Amriswil-Friedrichshafen: Bodensee-Verlag, 1950
Michel Ragon: Les Visionnaires de l'Architecture après Le Corbusier. [s.l.]: R. Laffont, [s.a.] (Collection "Construire le monde")
Walter Jonas - artist. Thinker. Urbanist. Author: Stefan Howald. Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich. 352 pages, 52 color and 85 b/w illustrations. Price: CHF 59.- / € 54.00
The rediscovery of a visionary universal thinker: Walter Jonas (1910-1979) developed a late expressionism of his own as a young painter in Berlin and Paris. During the Second World War, important cultural figures met in his Zurich studio; Friedrich Dürrenmatt, among others, wrote his first literary texts there. From 1954, Jonas presented the first art programs on Swiss television; on trips to India and Brazil, he expanded his forms of expression as a painter. However, the versatile artist became known for his spectacular vision of a city of the future: from 1960, with his funnel house and the Intrapolis, he put forward an urban concept for discussion that combines social, ecological and aesthetic ideas. This biography by the publicist Stefan Howald, based on Jonas' extraordinarily diverse work, is illustrated with images of paintings, etchings, drawings and models of the Intrapolis.

Sources
Artistic legacy. Walter and Rosa Maria Foundation, Limmatauweg 18c, CH-5408 Ennetbaden
Documents. Zurich, Central Library, written legacy
Audio recordings are in the Swiss National Sound Archives / Fonoteca Nazionale, Lugano.https://www.fonoteca.chTelephone +41 58 465 73 44 / Mail: fnoffice@nb.admin.ch / Via Cortivallo 11, 6900 LuganoElectronic catalog of works. https://walterjonas.ch/db/login.phpThe INTRAPOLIS legacy is in the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture ETH Zurich
Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 CH-8093 Zurich
https://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/

Lectures
Lecture by Roy Oppenheim, held in the lecture hall of the Kunsthaus Zurich, November 7, 1999 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death.
Speech by Roy Oppenheim on the 20th anniversary of Walter Jonas' death

Speech by Christof Vitali, Matinée Walter Jonas, 7.11.1999, Kunsthaus Zürich

Alfred E. Urfer - Walter and his vision of the city