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Max Bill, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974

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
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. Explore related designers including Josef Müller-Brockmann, Karl Gerstner, and Richard Paul Lohse. See also International Typographic Style and Bauhaus.

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Max Bill, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1974
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