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Von konstruktiver klarheit. Max bill und seine zeit 1940–1952

Sale price$55.00

Max Bill (1908–1994) was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th Century, working as a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic artist, furniture designer, typographer, writer, curator, educator, lecturer and politician. In her multivolume biography, art historian Angela Thomas uses a variety of sources—books, journals, interviews and several unpublished documents—to introduce readers to the artist’s life and work and to explore the personal, cultural and political circles he was active in. Following the first volume of the biography, published in 2008, Thomas now devotes the second installment to Bill’s life during World War II and the postwar period.

Von konstruktiver klarheit. Max bill und seine zeit 1940–1952
Von konstruktiver klarheit. Max bill und seine zeit 1940–1952 Sale price$55.00

Language

German

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers in cooperation with the max bill georges vantongerloo stiftung

Composition

Softcover with dust jacket

Contributors

Angela Thomas

Pages

840 pages

Size

16.5 x 23.5 cm

ISBN

9783906915685

Publication Date

October 2023

The Artist

MAX BILL

Max Bill was a great Swiss polymath: an artist, architect, industrial designer, graphic designer, and teacher. He attended the Bauhaus where he was taught by Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. Bill remained closely associated with the Bauhaus school and was a key figure in developing and propagating its principles, especially through his professorship at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich and as a founder of the Ulm School of Design. Through his pursuit of a new visual language that could be understood by the senses alone, Bill defined the conventions of Swiss design for decades to come. His influence spread even as far as South America, where he was a catalyst for the Concrete Art movement.

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