Collection: Bill Max

(Winterthur 1908 - Berlin 1994)

Architect, designer, painter, sculptor, teacher, and art theorist, Max Bill was one of the most multifaceted figures in 20th-century art. Trained at the Bauhaus in Dessau under the guidance of artists like Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, he was one of the leading exponents of Concrete Art, a movement that promoted an aesthetic strictly based on mathematical laws and geometric structures.
His graphic production, rich with advertising brands, books, and posters (notably the one for the Munich Olympics in 1972), is characterized by the use of modular systems and the serial variation of primary shapes. Bill theorized and applied the concept of “good form” (die gute Form), eliminating all subjectivism in favor of a logical composition where color and line are functional elements.