Max Bill | MoMA

Tickets

Wikipedia entry
Introduction
Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
Wikidata
Q123454
View or edit the full Wikipedia entry
Information from Wikipedia, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Getty record
Introduction
Swiss sculptor, painter, typographer, and teacher studied at the Bauhaus (1927-1929) and remained faithful to that institution's tenets throughout his life. Bill relied on mathematics and geometry to create his paintings and sculptural works, and is associated with the theories of concrete art. His works are abstract, based on grid systems or concerned with geometric conundrums such as the Möbius strip. He was an active member of the Abstraction-Création group, and was rector of the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung from 1951-1955. He also acted as architect of the HFG's buildings. Swiss painter, sculptor and architect; d. 12/9/94 in Berlin.
Nationality
Swiss
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Architect, Professor, Writer, Publicist, Typographer, Graphic Designer, Industrial Designer, Graphic Artist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor
Name
Max Bill
Ulan
500005369
View the full Getty record
Information from Getty’s Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License

Works

38 works online

Exhibitions

View all 24 exhibitions

Publications

  • Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939. The Merrill C. Berman Collection at MoMA Edited by Jodi Hauptman and Adrian Sudhalter, 2020 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 288 pages
  • Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García, 2019 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 240 pages
Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].

Feedback

This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please send feedback to [email protected].