Biography
Cornelia
Hesse-Honegger,
scientific illustrator and science artist, was born in
1944 in Zurich, Switzerland. For 25 years she worked as
a scientific illustrator for the scientific department
of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich.
Since 1969 she has collected and painted leaf bugs, Heteroptera.
Her watercolors are exhibited internationally at museums
and galleries. Her work is an interface between art and
science; it plays witness to a beautiful but endangered
nature. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she
has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed
insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl
as well as near nuclear installations. As a result of her
studies, she is convinced that in |
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