2024-03-18 18:25:28
– Roger Pfund, the illustrator of the Swiss passport, has died
The Geneva graphic designer died on Saturday at the age of 80. He was also at the origin of the last series of French banknotes.
Published today at 7:25 p.m.
Roger Pfund, en 2009.
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“Father of the Swiss passport” and the last French banknotes, Genevan Roger Pfund died on Saturday at the age of 80. The information was announced by our RTS colleagues.
“Roger Pfund hasn’t been in good shape for several years,” his son Tristan Pfund told Keystone-ATS on Sunday. The graphic designer from Berne by birth but from Geneva by adoption died of complications after an infection, we learn.
Painter, graphic designer and designer, Roger Pfund left his mark on his time with his numerous artistic achievements in Switzerland and abroad.
Banknote specialist
Born in 1943 in Bern, he moved to Geneva in 1971, where he developed his activity. First in his Carouge workshop, then in Plainpalais. Among his works, let us mention in particular the museography of the current International Museum of the Red Cross in 1985. But we owe him above all the reserve series of banknotes of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), as well as the illustration of the Swiss passport from 2003.
Roger Pfund designed the 2003 Swiss passport.
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Ten years earlier, Roger Pfund had created the French 50 franc bank note bearing the image of Saint-Exupéry, which was put into circulation during the decade until the introduction of the euro in 2002. He was also at the origin of the Cézanne (100 francs) and Gustave Eiffel (200 francs) notes.
“The banknote must be beautiful, colorful and must tell a story. He is the cultural ambassador of a country,” underlined the artist who was then a consultant to the BNS and numerous central banks. The completion of this work also allowed him to receive the French honorary distinction of officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Locally, the man will also have worked for the theater, notably for twenty-five years for the Théâtre Am Stram Gram, but also for the Théâtre de Poche or the Grand Théâtre de Genève under the direction of Jean-Marie Blanchard.
The exhibition “the multiple and the singular” at the Museum of Art and History brought together more than 200 pieces by Roger Pfund.
LAURENT GUIRAUD (Archives)
In 2013, the illustrator, who was also a painter, benefited from a major retrospective by the Museum of Art and History (MAH). In spring 2023, the same Geneva museum institution dedicated an exhibition to him, “the multiple and the singular”, bringing together nearly 250 pieces.
In 2016, the graphic designer’s workshop, which had employed up to 20 employees, was forced to close its doors after financial turmoil.
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The graphic designer Roger Pfund inspired Corinne Jaquet, former journalist and legal columnist, to the point of becoming the protagonist of one of his thrillers. Published in 1999 by Éditions du Chien Jaune, “Loose money in Carouge» depicted the kidnapping of the illustrator from his studio in Carouge. A mysterious disappearance which will be the subject of a vast investigation…
Corinne Jaquet thus became one of the few, if not the first, to make a still-living personality the hero of her detective story.
Lorraine Fasler has been a journalist at the Tribune de Genève since 2018. Previously, she worked for RTS info. It covers in particular topics related to family, health and covers the town of Veyrier. She holds a master’s degree from the Academy of Media and Journalism of the University of Neuchâtel.More information@LorraineFasler
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