Guido Lengwiler (born 1960) – Originally from Winterthur, Switzerland, Lengwiler attended the School for Arts and Crafts in Zurich from 1977 to 1982. And in 1980, he attended a specialist class for painting with Franz Fedier in Basel.

From 1983 to 1986, he was a screenprinting apprentice with Beatrice Spillmann in Zurich. Then he worked as a screenprinter with Fred Birchler and Beatrice Spillmann in Zurich for ten years.

Since 1992, he has been a professor of screenprinting at the Schools for Arts and Crafts, Screen Printing Department, in Berne. Guido also became interested in photography and experimented with 20 to 30 grayscale separations for screenprinting.

In 1998, he began his work on the history of screenprinting. The discovery of historical documents in Switzerland led to ten years of intensive research in Europe and the USA. The first overview was published in 2006 in the screenprinting magazine “Siebdruck Infopost” in sixteen articles. While the articles were written in German, they were translated into English. The book — A History of Screen Printing — is available by clicking here.

Guido lives in Basel and commutes to his class in Berne.

Lengwiler is a 2008 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).