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Max Bill: No Beginning, No End
Marta Herford
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Format: Book
Pages: 199
Publisher: Scheidegger und Spiess AG
Date Published: Apr 2008
Stock Code: 65471
Binding: Paperback
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Swiss artist, architect and designer, typographist and theoritician Max Bill (19081994) is one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by teachers such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandisky and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany arguably the most influential school of art of the 20th century Max Bill began his career in the 1930s in the manner of a universal genius. In the 1950s he teamed up with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design in Ulm, Germany, becoming its first director. In his work, Max Bill continued the legacy of the Bauhaus both as an artist and a teacher and made a decisive and lasting contribution to shaping 20th-century cultural life.
This book accompanies the exhibition held at the Museum MARTa Herford in Herford, Germany, marking the 100th anniversary of this exceptional artist and presents his extensive oeuvre of sculptures, paintings, architecture, design and typography. The exhibition sheds light also on Max Bills cultural sphere by including works of his contemporaries, such as Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky or Donald Judd, and engages in a virtual discourse with the intellectual world of Bill's age. The essays investigate his influence on other artists and the lasting importance of Bill's artistic oeuvre until the present day.
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