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This led to work as a journalist, which earned her opportunities for further travel to write and draw what she saw. From 1956 to 1958, she was on a long-term assignment in the Tonga
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Although she trained as a visual artist, Von Arx’s career was focused on writing. This began during her first travels in the early 1950s, writing articles about her experiences during. She continued after she returned to
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of the twentieth century although she admired the creativity of man and especially architecture. At age fifteen, she began the first piece, with a utopian image of her hometown. During her life, she invited others to participate, with the collection gaining pieces with images of various parts of the
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Her fictional writing mostly focused on alternative universes and how to make the world better. During her career she depicted utopian worlds both in words and pictures with the aim of making a better reality. Her books describe her travels and adventures as well as the history of the Priory House.
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who became a mentor and longtime friend. Hundertwasser told her to paint what she feared to make it more tolerable. She left the academy at age 25 to travel the world, drawing, painting, translating and even singing Swiss folk songs in the streets to earn money to live and move on to the next place.
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Von Arx is quoted as saying that “everyone has their creative side, but often it is dormant.” One other of her lifetime projects is a collection of textile works called
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condition. Katharina worked to save the building, writing about, promoting its historical value and founding a private association dedicated to saving it. It took thirty years to raise the money and restore the building and today it is a national monument.
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She continued to write and illustrate periodicals and books for the rest of her life, which included fictional work as well. The latter mostly focused on alternative universes and utopian idea as well as stories based on the history of the Priory House.
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Her work won recognitions such as the
Kulturpreis des Kantons Solothurn (1975), Förderpreis Olten (1976), the Werkbeitrag der Goethe-Stiftung, Zürich (1976) and the Werkbeiträge von Bund, Kt.Solothurn, Stiftungen, Unternehmen 1972-1987.
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world such as New York, Mexico and the Middle East, all created by local hands. At the time of her death the collection contained twenty pieces, done in a variety of fabrics, a compilation that the
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Pacific. Here she met journalist and photographer Freddy Drilhon, to whom she was married until his death in 1976. The couple had one daughter, Fréderiqué Drilhon von Arx, born in 1958.
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