Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
13 Facts About Max Bill
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Max Bill is widely considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss graphic design beginning in the 1950s with his theoretical writing and progressive work.
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Max Bill sought to create objects so that the new science of form could be understood by the senses: that is as a concrete art.
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Max Bill made spare geometric paintings and spherical sculptures, some based on the Mobius strip, in stone, wood, metal and plaster.
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Max Bill continued to produce architectural designs, such as those for a museum of contemporary art in Florence and for the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.
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In 1944, Max Bill became a professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich.
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Max Bill was a professor at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste Hamburg and chair of Environmental Design from 1967 to 1974.
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Max Bill had his first exhibition in the United States at the Staempfli Gallery in New York City in 1963 and was the subject of retrospectives at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1974.
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Max Bill participated in documentas I, II, and III.
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Max Bill is credited with having been "the spark that lighted the fuse of Brazil's artistic revolution" and the country's "movement toward concrete art" with his 1951 retrospective at the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art.
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Max Bill was elected to the Zurich municipal council in 1961.
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Max Bill died en route to a hospital after collapsing from a heart attack at Berlin Tegel Airport.
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Max Bill was 85 and lived in Zumikon, a Zurich suburb.