– Géa Augsbourg in the spotlight at Château d’Aigle
From Wednesday, drawings and paintings by the Vaudois artist will be exhibited in the monument until August 2025.
Published today at 12:18 p.m.
Until next August, the Château d’Aigle will host an exhibition dedicated to Géa Augsbourg, who died fifty years ago.
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Géa Augsbourg, the Château d’Aigle is dedicating an exhibition to this essential artist from the Pays de Vaud from Wednesday until August 17, 2025. Bringing together drawings, paintings and personal documents, this collection was patiently put together by the visual artist Claude Augsburger, a fervent admirer and collector of the master’s work.
A multi-talented artist, Géa Augsbourg marked his time as a designer, painter, ceramist and journalist. Collaborator of personalities like Marc Chagall and Charles Albert Cingria, his work is distinguished by incredible diversity.
The exhibition will also highlight his close link with the vine, notably through the wine labels he created, as well as the portfolio “La terre vaudoise et ses vignes”, illustrated with a text by Charles-François Landry . At the same time, Claude Augsburger will present a series of his own works.
Between France and Switzerland
Born in 1902 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Georges-Charles Augsburger, known as Gea Augsburg, left scientific studies to devote himself to art. After a stay in Ostend (B) where he discovered painting, he moved to Paris in the 1930s. There he rubbed shoulders with artists like Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob.
Recognized for his press drawings and his portraits of Swiss rurality, the artist alternated between France and Switzerland, where he received the Franco-Swiss Arts Prize in 1937. Marked by the Second World War, he returned to Switzerland, where he continued to illustrate and collaborate with the press.
His work, vast and multifaceted, has been the subject of several monographs and retrospectives, notably for his centenary in 2002. He died on February 7, 1974 in Prilly.
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