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Ugo Pirogallo: Intime Reise, 1945

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  • Format Book
  • Designer/s Max Bill
  • Year 1945
  • Client/Publisher Editions des Eaux-Vives
  • Size 150mm x 210mm
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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Ugo Pirogallo: Intime Reise, 1945 designed by Max Bill
Ugo Pirogallo: Intime Reise, 1945 designed by Max Bill
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