Wednesday, September 15, 2010

cornelia hesse-honegger

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger


Cornelia Hesse-Honegger was a scientific illustrator and a science artist.
She was born in in 1944 in Zurich, Switzerland. She worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich for 25 years.
Since 1969 she collected many bug and painted leaf bugs. After the Chernobyl disaster she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects.