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Walter Jonas with the Intrapolis model in 1965

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Visionen - Utopien. Livestream aus dem Historischen Museum Baden. - Die INTRAPOLIS VON WALTER JONAS. Referat von Roy Oppenheim, Präsident der Stiftung Walter und R.M.Jonas, am 11.5.2023, 18.30 h. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung +Baukultur in Baden", 24.3. - 10.9.2023

Historisches Museum Baden

Landesmuseum ZürichAusstellung | 02.03. - 27.06.2021Virus – Krise – Utopie

Utopias thrive particularly well in times of crisis. An exhibition at the Zurich State Museum examines this phenomenon - historically and currently. The corona pandemic shows our world that the usual normality is reaching its limits. The exhibition sheds light on current visions of the future, puts them in a historical context and connects them with current events. The exhibition focuses on Walter Jonas' funnel city as a historical example of utopia and shows two models and some sketches/drawings from the gta archive of ETH Zurich.

Intraplois von Walter Jonas (gta ETH)

Landesmuseum - Ausstellung - Intrapolis

Utopias thrive particularly well in times of crisis. An exhibition at the Zurich State Museum examines this phenomenon - historically and currently. The corona pandemic shows our world that the usual normality is reaching its limits. The exhibition sheds light on current visions of the future, puts them in a historical context and connects them with current events. The exhibition focuses on Walter Jonas' funnel city as a historical example of utopia and shows two models and some sketches/drawings from the gta archive of ETH Zurich.

October 22, 2020 - January 10, 2021
EXHIBITION Kosmos Dürrenmatt
Strauhof. Augustinergasse 9. 8001 Zurich
The exhibition shows the relationships between Walter Jonas and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Dürrenmatt lived in the city on the Limmat in the 1940s and moved in the circle of the painter Walter Jonas. On the night of January 13-14, 1943, Jonas and Dürrenmatt carried out a literary and artistic experiment together with the art critic Dr. Werner Y. Müller: the book of a night. Dürrenmatt scratched his poems onto a copper plate (reversed), Jonas designed the 10 etchings. The edition was limited to three prints (it was wartime, money was in short supply).

Walter Jonas. Painter, urbanist and pioneer
22 April – 15 July 2012 at the Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel
The Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel dedicated a temporary exhibition to the versatile artist and thinker Walter Jonas (1910-1979). In addition to portraits, urban design plans that attracted worldwide attention are presented in drawings and architectural models. The "Book of a Night", which is being exhibited publicly for the first time, testifies to a joint project and the connection with Friedrich Dürrenmatt; because Jonas - according to Dürrenmatt - "was indispensable in my life".

NEWLY PUBLISHED (end of 2020): FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT - a biography. By Ulrich Weber. Diogenes
With a longer text about the relationship between Dürrenmatt and Jonas. This inspired Dürrenmatt to write several times and successfully.

NEW: The Jewish cultural area of ​​Aargau. Editor: Prof. Jacques Picard, Angela Bhend. 2021. With an article by Stefan Howald "With the name of the prophet". walter-jonas---mit-dem-namen-eines-propheten--.pdf

Electronic catalog of works. Catalog of works

Publication "Walter Jonas - artist. Thinker. Urbanist". Author: Stefan Howald. Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich. 352 pages, 52 color and 85 black and white illustrations. Price: CHF 59.- / € 54.00. ISBN 9783858813121

NZZ review from May 4, 2013. nzz-jonas---ein-faustischer-zeitgenosse-4-mai-.pdf

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Stoffe
Genetic edition of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Stoffen": An expanded edition and online presentation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Stoffen" was created in the Swiss Literary Archives. Rudolf Probst and Ulrich Weber are working on a text-genetic edition that was published in collaboration with Diogenes Verlag, Zurich. In addition to the two published volumes of Dürrenmatt's "Stoffen" - "Labyrinth: Stoffe I-III" and "Turmbau: Stoffe IV-IX" (Zurich: Diogenes 1990), extensive texts and materials from the time when Dürrenmatt's autobiography was written are included in the edition. - In addition to biographical documents, there are also pictures that Dürrenmatt refers to in the "Materials" (and in the manuscript versions). Walter Jonas plays an important role here. Dürrenmatt was friends with Walter Jonas and cites a number of pictures by Walter Jonas. Here are F. Dürrenmatt's statements about Jonas' pictures in the "Stoffe":
"Of his pictures from that time, I remember a 'Fall of Icarus', which in my opinion is strangely mixed with that of Brueghel, and pictures of Ragusa on the Yugoslavian Adriatic coast. At the time I knew him, he was mainly an etcher; together with one of his acquaintances, he created the "Book of a Night", I designed the text, he etched it. Later, I designed a Gilgamesh drama, three scenes that he illustrated, using the aquatint technique, ..."

Exhibition of Jeremias Gotthelf etchings by Walter Jonas in Wyl Castle
Who still knows them: the around 50 etchings of the complete works of Jeremias Gotthelf that Walter Jonas created around 1955 on behalf of the EX LIBRIS book club? The original etchings were never shown publicly. This is now possible thanks to the Steinmann Foundation, founded by Professor Dr. Matthias Steinmann. steinmann@berakom.ch

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