Alois Carigiet - Painter illustrator and graphic artist - color Litho "tanz" pencil signed

• Alois Carigiet [kariˈdʑɛt] (born August 30, 1902 in Trun, Graubünden; died August 1, 1985 in Trun) was a Swiss painter, draftsman, lithographer and children's book author.
• After spending his early childhood on a farm in Trun, the family moved to Chur in 1911, where he attended secondary school and cantonal school, but Carigiet dropped out in 1918. He completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and went to Zurich in 1923, where he worked in the advertising studio of Max Dalang (1882–1965). In 1927 he opened his own studio, where he designed stage sets and costumes for a cabaret. In 1933 he co-founded the Cabaret Cornichon.[1] Alois Carigiet produced a large number of commercial graphic works from this period, such as the red cloverleaf for the national lottery in 1937 and the poster for the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1939,[2] after a first poster competition, which Carigiet also won, had been unsatisfactory.[3]

In 1938, he painted a wine cellar mural in the former Fraumünsterkeller restaurant in Zurich's Metropol, a work not intended for public viewing at the time.[4] In 1939, when he was dissatisfied with the situation of having to do commissioned work as an illustrator, he switched from graphic designer to freelance artist and returned to Graubünden, moving to Platenga in Obersaxen.[5] In 1942 he married and the couple had two children. There he also worked on illustrating children's books. The most famous was Schellenursli, written by Selina Chönz and with which the Engadine custom of Chalandamarz became world famous. The following children's books, such as Flurina and the Wildvöglein, did not quite achieve the same level of fame, but are no less valuable from an artistic point of view.

Exhibitions followed in Schaffhausen, Solothurn and Geneva. In 1950 he temporarily moved back to Zurich to create the mural Allegro con Spirito in the Muraltengut, which had been bought by the city for representation purposes in 1944. In 1956 he painted the facade of the "Schwarzer Adler" building in Stein am Rhein on behalf of the Falken brewery (Schaffhausen).[6] In 1960 he returned to his hometown of Trun in Graubünden and continued to illustrate books. He also wrote children's books himself.

A room in the Sursilvan Museum in Trun is dedicated to the work of Alois Carigiet. Alois Carigiet was the older brother of the later actor Zarli Carigiet.