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Max Bill, Fundacion Juan March, 2016

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“The definitive illustrated monograph on 20th-century Swiss artist, designer, and architect Max Bill, whose work spanned from graphic design and advertising typography to product and furniture design and from painting to sculpture.”

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  • Format: Book
  • Designer/s: Max Bill
  • Year: 2016
  • Client/Publisher: Fundacion Juan March
  • Size: 235mm x 265mm
Max Bill studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich from 1924 until 1927. He visited Paris in 1925 and was inspired by the work of Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann and Friedrich Kiesler. After attending a lecture by Le Corbusier in Zurich he decided to study architecture. He studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau, from 1927 until 1929. Then moved to Zurich and worked in typography, graphic design, painting, sculpture and architecture. He was also a teacher at  Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, a guest lecturer at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt and worked at  Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm.

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Max Bill, Fundacion Juan March, 2016
Max Bill, Fundacion Juan March, 2016
Max Bill studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich from 1924 until 1927. He visited Paris in 1925 and was inspired by the work of Le Corbusier, Josef Hoffmann and Friedrich Kiesler. After attending a lecture by Le Corbusier in Zurich he decided to study architecture. He studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau, from 1927 until 1929. Then moved to Zurich and worked in typography, graphic design, painting, sculpture and architecture. He was also a teacher at  Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, a guest lecturer at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt and worked at  Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm.
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