Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Max Bill

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 22/12/1908 - 9/12/1994

Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, graphic designer and industrial designer.

Studied: Bauhaus - under Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer
Max Bill was a primary member of the Allianz design group and was a professor at the school of design in Zurich.

Max Bill was considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss design in the 1950's. His studies conducted at the Bauhaus in the early days of Modernism gave him a special influence over design in the 1950's.

Important Works:


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Junghans Kitchen Clock 1950s

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Ulmer Hocker 1954

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Endlose Treppe (1991)

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