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Einheit aus drei gleichen Zylindern (Whole made out of three identical cylinders) · 1966 · Sculpture · © Max Bill, courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Max Bill Georges Vantongerloo Stiftung
Max Bill
Swiss polymath who brought Bauhaus principles into concrete art, sculpture, and the foundational language of Swiss design.
Max Bill studied at the Bauhaus under Kandinsky, Klee, and Moholy-Nagy, then spent six decades translating those principles into a discipline he called Concrete Art — work built from mathematical and geometric foundations, rational in construction, sensory in effect.
The practice crossed every boundary: painting, sculpture, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, teaching. He co-founded the Ulm School of Design, defined Swiss modernism for a generation, and catalyzed Brazil's Concrete Art movement with a single 1951 retrospective in São Paulo.
He worked from Zurich and insisted that design carried social responsibility. The forms were rigorous. The reach was global.
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