Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee , Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s. press.uchicago.edu
Max Bill, a member of the Swiss 'Zurich Concrete' group, was an architect, painter, sculptor, politician, educationalist, writer, in short, a 'universal creator' abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_Grnfthrs_fldr/g073a_maxbi...
1931 heiratete Max Bill die Cellistin und Fotografin Binia Spoerri, die 1988 verstarb. Aus dieser ersten Ehe ging als einziges Kind Johann Jakob (* 1942) hervor. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bill
Max Bill- It represented a comprehensive artistic figuration of our environment. Among other things it developed loop plastics from the Moebius volume www.archinform.net/arch/1031.htm
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The essential feature of Max Bill's oeuvre is mathematically precise work with geometric elements of order. Principles of his art are rhythm in an enclosed surface www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com/sculpt/stuttgart/ut_bill...
Max Bill studied at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1929 before returning to his native Switzerland and settling in Zurich. He worked in many mediums and attempted to unify them in his work. Bill is remembered primarily for his stone and metal sculptures which wwar.com/masters/b/bill-max.html
Quotes by Max Bill
"A few years later I discovered that when making a Moebius strip one could orientate it in different directions."
"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art."
"Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking."