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Max Bill, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974

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Edition of 5000 copies. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition held Sept. 28-Nov. 17, 1974 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 17, 1974 to Feb. 16, 1975 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Mar. 4-Apr. 20, 1975 at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

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  • Format: Exhibition Catalogue
  • Designer/s: Max Bill
  • Year: 1974
  • Client/Publisher: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  • Size: 210mm x 280mm
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, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974
Max Bill, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974
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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