Hans Erni Biography

Hans Erni was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, the third of eight siblings, to a cabin cruiser engineer, he studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris and later in Berlin, and admired artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

«He created an art that can be understood by people not understanding anything about art.»
(Hans-Jörg Heusser, 1983)