Designer · Denmark / Sweden · 1942–2020
Lis Zwick
Lis Zwick (1942–2020) – Danish-Swedish artist associated with the Drakabygget collective, known for large enamel friezes.
About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1942–2020
- Country
- Denmark / Sweden
Lis Zwick was born on 16 August 1942 in Copenhagen and died on 22 May 2020. She studied at Den Grafiske Højskole in Copenhagen and at the art academy in Aarhus; in 1962–1963 she studied at the Drakabygget art collective in Örkelljunga with Hardy Strid and Jørgen Nash. From 1968 she lived at Drakabygget, and in 1969 she married Jørgen Nash.
She worked in graphic art, acrylic, gouache, watercolour, glass and, above all, large-scale enamel. Her works include an enamel frieze at Copenhagen Central Station (1985, with Jørgen Nash) and a frieze at the indoor swimming pool in Simrishamn (1980). Her works are held at Skissernas Museum in Lund and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
