Herbert Berthold Libiszewski
Herbert LIBISZEWSKI was born in Bischofszell, Switzerland in 1897 and worked as a fashion illustrator, advertising consultant, illustrator, painter and graphic designer (under the pseudonym of Libis) in St. Gallen.
First he was trained as an embroidery designer in St. Gallen, then he spent a few semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he attended free academies and worked for the magazines Vogue, Jardin des Modes, Votre Beauté and Marie Claire. In 1941 he returned to Switzerland and devoted himself to designing posters and painting.