Max Bill

1908 Winterthur/Schweiz
1994 Berlin
Max Bill seeks to implement his Bauhaus experience in new ideas for the Ulm School of Design that he co-founds in 1951 and where he holds the principal's post until 1956. The universal concept of design and teaching as it was developed at the Bauhaus, has been formative for Max Bill's work. By the same token, his works deal with the concepts of "Concrete art", as they had been expressed by Theo van Doesburg around 1930. "Concrete Art", according to Doesburg, are works of art that are created by means of art's most genuine means of composition and principles, entirely doing without allusions to phenomenon of nature and their abstraction. New realities are created by forming colors, space, light and movement. These formulations are also specified by Max Bill in several texts on art theory. Mathematics also make for a fundamental part of Max Bill's art. He writes the essay "Die mathematische Denkweise in der Kunst unserer Zeit" (Mathematical Thinking in Contemporary Art) in 1949, in which he perpetuates the ideas of Georges Vantongerloo, ideas that see art as a product of mathematical concepts.
Max Bill is regarded as a main representative and theoretician of "Concrete Art" in general, especially of the "Zürcher Schule der Konkreten" (Zurich School of the Concrete).
He dies in Berlin on December 9, 1994.
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