Max Bill: ohne Anfang, ohne Ende

Museum MARTa Herford

ISBN 10: 3858815780 / ISBN 13: 9783858815781

Published by Scheidegger & Spiess Feb 2018, 2018

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Neuware -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 Kandinsky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, Bill immediately displayed a genius for work in fields as diverse as painting, sculpture, and design at the start of his career in the 1930s. In the 1950s he teamed up with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design in Ulm, Germany, of which he became the first director. In his work, Max Bill carried on the legacy of the Bauhaus, both as an artist and a teacher, and made a decisive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century cultural life.GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Postfach 2021, 37010 Göttingen 200 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Max Bill: ohne Anfang, ohne Ende
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess Feb 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858815780
• ISBN 13: 9783858815781
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 289W x 202H x 20D millimeters 289 millimeters width by 202 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 956 grams

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Synopsis

Swiss artist, architect, and theorist Max Bill (1908–94) was an important proponent of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in twentieth-century European applied arts and design. Trained at the Bauhaus with eminent figures like Wassily Kandinsky, Walter Gropius, and Paul Klee, Bill displayed an early virtuosity across a diverse range of fields, including painting, sculpture, architecture, typography, and design. In the 1950s, he collaborated with Inge Scholl and Otl Aicher to found the legendary Ulm College of Design, where he carried on the Bauhaus legacy as both artist and teacher and made a decisive and lasting contribution to twentieth-century cultural life.

This long-awaited new edition of the authoritative book on Bill’s wide-ranging work, Max Bill: No Beginning, No End situates Bill within the context of his cultural moment. With more than two hundred illustrations of works by Bill and his contemporaries, the book also includes contributions by Getulio Alviani, Lorenzo Benedetti, Ulrike Bestgen, Friederike Fast, Erich Schmid, and Angela Thomas Schmid that investigate Bill’s influence on other artists and the lasting importance of his work to the present day.
 

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Founded in 2005, Museum Marta Herford is a contemporary art museum with a focus on architecture and interior design.