Friday, 22 August 2025

Niklaus Troxler - part 1


Niklaus Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. He worked as an art director in Paris in 1972 and subsequently founded his own design practice in Willisau, Switzerland. He started organising jazz concerts in Willisau in 1966 and initiated the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1975.

Troxler’s graphic works (particularly his concert posters and record cover designs) won him several relevant international awards: the Toulouse-Lautrec medal in gold (1987 and 1994), design awards in Lahti (1993), Helsinki (1997), Hong Kong (2000), Hangzhou (2003), Ningbo (2006), Taiwan (2005), and Colorado (2006).

He won the Innerschweizer Kulturpreis (cultural award of central Switzerland) in 1982. Troxler is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. His posters are represented in the most renowned design collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Hamburg’s Museum for Art and Industry, the German Poster Museum in Essen, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

This is part 1 of a 2-part post on the works of Niklaus Troxler:

1969 Jazz-Club Lucerne
New Jazz 5.Juli

Jazz in Willisau
Jazz Focus '65

1970 Spontaneous Music Ensemble London

New Jazz in Willisau
1970 John Tchicai Trio

1970 Jazz in Willsau 18.Jan.

1971 Jazz in Willisau
The Trio

1971 Jazz-Plakate
19.Juli-4.Sept.

1971 Jazz in Willisau 15 Mai

1973 Irene Schweizer (Piano) etc.

1973 Chris McGregors Brotherhood of Breath

1973 <<OM>> "Electricjazz-Freemusic" Willisau

1974 Mike Osborne Trio, Willisau

1975 Marion Brown Quartet, Willisau-13.Dec.20.00

1975 Jazz Festival Willisau 29-31 Aug

1976 JazzFestival Willisau '76 26-29 Aug

1976 Archie Shepp Group Willisau 29.Mai

1977 The Clifford Thornton Ensemble Sa 26.Febr. Jazz in Willisau

1977 Mike Osborne Quintet Irene Schweizer Trio, Willisau

1978 Don Pullen Quartet, Willisau

1979 Sam Rivers Quartet 12 Mai, Willisau

1979 Jazz-Fest, Willisau

1979 Jazz in Willisau
George Coleman Quartet

1979 Drum-Fire, Jazz in Willisau

1980 Sun Ra Arkestra

1980 Nat Adderley Brotherhood

1980 Industriekultur

1981 Sax Time, Willisau

1981 Kalaparusha Quintet, Willisau

1981 Jazz Bass,  Ron Carter Quartet
Willisau

1982 OM hört auf! (OM Stops)

1982 Arthur Blythe Quintet, Willisau

1983 URS Bochlinger & Legfek Orchester, Willisau

1983 The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Willisau


1983 Jazz Festival Willisau '83


1983 James Newton Quartet, Willisau


1984 10. Jazz Festival Willisau '84


1984 4.Int. Narrentreffen Willisau 25/26.2.84


1985 Werner Ludi Sunnymoon, Vienna Art Orchestra, Willisau


1985 Hermeto Pascoal e Group, Brasil Jazz night Willisau So 10. Febr.


1986 29th Street Saxophone Quartet N.Y. Willisau






Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Roy Carruthers

Roy Carruthers, painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, and art director, was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on December 14, 1938. Carruthers studied at the Port Elizabeth Technical College Art School, which apprenticed him in the advertising agencies in Port Elizabeth. From 1956 to 1968, he worked as an art director and graphic designer, first in South Africa, then in London, where he moved in 1960. He spent most of the 1960s living England before he immigrated to the United States in 1968. He settled in Old Greenwich, Connecticut and commuted to New York City for many years working in the advertising industry. In 1974, he decided to devote himself entirely to fine art but returned to the advertising world in the 1980s. He eventually opened his own advertising and graphic design firm in the New York borough of Queens. Carruthers taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1975. As a fine artist, he produced paintings, drawings, sculpture, etchings, and lithographs. His collaboration with Editions Press in San Francisco produced colour lithographs and sculpture.

Carruthers' work was honoured with an award from the American Institute of Graphic Art in 1973 and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in 1973. His works were exhibited throughout Europe, South Africa and the United States. In 1982 he returned to South Africa as a guest of the Department of National Education and was honored with a touring museum exhibition of his work. Carruthers is represented in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; University of Wyoming Art Museum; the Oklahoma City Museum of Art; Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greenboro; and the Ponce Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Roy Carruthers died on May 3, 2013, in Bunnell, Florida.


1971 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse #1 War
oil on canvas 40.6 x 61 cm

1972 Girl with lion and hoop n' stick
oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm

1974 Eighth Wonder
oil on canvas 121.9 x 182.8 cm (framed)

1975 The Psychiatrist
pencil on paper 64 x 54 cm

1976 The Engineer, Watson
pencil on paper 47 x 42.4 cm

1977 Three Smokers
oil on canvas 181 x 144.8 cm

1978 A Message from Magritte
oil on canvas 190.5 x 132.7 cm

1978 Suitor with Voyeur
graphite on paper 47 x 50.2 cm

1979 One man drinking tea, the other just sitting there
oil on canvas 183 x 137 cm

1979 The Interview
oil on canvas 190 x 239 cm

1980 Seated man with books
chalk on paper 127.6 x 95.2 cm

1980 Still life with safety razor
colour lithograph 76.2 x 56.9 cm

1980 Still life with safety razor
pencil on paper 76.2 x 56.9 cm

1980 The Drinkers
oil on canvas 185.4 x 190.5 cm

1980 Woman drinking
pencil on paper 81.5 x 42.5 cm

1981 Study #1
lithograph 27.9 x 21.5 cm

1982 Man tying shoelaces
charcoal on paper 145 x 83 cm

1982 Untitled (Three Figures)
oil on canvas 152.4 x 121.9 cm

1983 The Bather
oil on canvas 101.6 x 60.9 cm

1983-86 Untitled
oil on canvas 200 x 168.3 cm

1989 Immeasurably
oil on canvas 20.25 x 24.3 cm

1998 The Venus of Ponte Vedra
oil on canvas 67.3 x 99.6 cm

1999 The Couple
oil on canvas 184.1 x 145.4 cm

Note: Dates were not found for the remainder of this post:

Afternoon Tea
oil on canvas 68.75 x 47.75 cm

Figural
colour lithograph 131.4 x 48.2 cm

Open drawers
lithograph (size not given)

Open toe sling-backs
lithograph (size not given)

Peacock Lady
acrylic on canvas 76.2 x 60.9 cm

Ship of Fools
oil on canvas 106.6 x 152.4 cm

Sleeping Woman
colour lithograph 73.7 x 98.8 cm

Southpaw
colour lithograph 36.8 x 31.75 cm

Still-Life with Coffee / Tea Pots
lithograph (size not given)

The Left Handed Bureaucrat
lithograph on wove paper 107 x 74 cm

Victorian House Fire
oil on canvas 53.3 x 43.1 cm