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Arne Rohweder

Arne Rohweder is a Swiss landscape artist and cartographer. He has over 30 years of experience in painting ski trail maps and hiking trail maps (panoramic maps) for world-famous as well as smaller tourist areas and ski resorts in the Alps. He also painted hiking trail maps of the Yosemite Valley, Grand Canyon National Park (USA) and a panoramic map of Meteora (Greece).

Career Rohweder grew up near Zurich and completed his apprenticeship in cartography at Orell Füssli Kartographie AG in Zurich. Between 1983 and 1990 he was involved in the production of the New Swiss World Atlas under Prof. E. Spiess (University Professor at the ETH Zurich). Afterwards, he settled with Orell Füssli Graphic Arts Ltd. training as a landscape artist. Between 1992 and 2008 he was self-employed. In 2008 he founded Arne Rohweder Ltd., which specializes in the production of ski and hiking trail maps. The world-famous tourist destinations he has painted for include St. Moritz, Engadin, Davos-Klosters, Arosa-Lenzerheide, Flims-Laax and Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis.

Art of painting Rohweder has developed and modernized the production of trail maps. He was the first landscape artist who started to paint panoramic maps completely digital, pixel or vector-based. Honors In 2018 Rohweder’s illustrated tourist map of the Rhaetian Railway (Switzerland) was selected for the entry in the Atlas of Design, Vol. IV. by the North American Cartographic Information Society (USA).

Official Website rohweder-map-design.com