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Warja Lavater
Warja Lavater (28 September 1913 – 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words (or even pictures).
Personal life.
Lavater spent the first nine years of her life in Moscow and Athens. In 1922, her mother (the author Mary Lavater-Sloman) and father (Emil Lavater, an
- Warja Lavater at the Swiss Institute" IN "Art in America" vol. 85, no. 4 (April 1997), p. 122
- Lavater, Warja. "Perception: When Signs Start to Communicate" IN "The Faces of physiognomy : interdisciplinary approaches to Johann Caspar Lavater". Edited by Ellis Shookman. Columbia, SC : Camden House, 1993. pp. 182–187. ()
- Mallarte-Feldman, Claire. "Folk Materials, Re-Visions, and Narrative Images: