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Artist: Max Bill (1908 - 1994)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement:
Media: Painting, Scupture
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Biography:
Max Bill studied at the Bauhaus from 1927 to 1929 before returning to his native Switzerland and settling in Zurich. He worked in many mediums and attempted to unify them in his work. Bill is remembered primarily for his stone and metal sculptures which he deemed “Concrete Art.” Bill was a prolific architect, designing his own house in Zurich among other buildings. He also co-founded and designed the College of Design in Ulm, where he was the head of the architecture and produce design departments from 1951 to 1957.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective
Brandt's best-known work documents the vivid social contrasts in Britain during the World Wars. He also photographed the landscapes of 'Literary Britain' and a pantheon of great artists and writers, as well as creating his outstanding series 'Per...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Bill Viola
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Detroit Institute of Art: BILL VIOLA
Viola’s single channel works have been distributed and broadcast around the world. The installation Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality is a highlight, along with the premier of his latest work, Eternal Return. Bil...
The Art Institute of Chicago: Bill Voila
Bill Viola is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and curated by David A. Ross and Peter Sellars. The Chicago presentation of Bill Viola is curated by James Rondeau, as...
National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
In other Capitol Hill matters important to the Endowment's interests, earlier this week the Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions approved seven Presidential nominees for the National Council on the Humanities. It is h...
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: SENATE PASSES FUNDING BILL WITH ARTS INCREASE; CONFERENCE FOLLOWS
The measure goes now to a House-Senate conference committee, scheduled to begin on Monday, September 27, to reconcile the Senate's proposed increases with level funding for
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: SENATE BEGINS NEA MONEY DEBATE -- DEFEATS MOTION TO ELIMINATE ARTS DOLLARS
Following the action endorsing federal spending on the arts, the Senate put aside the Interior money bill and turned its attention to the final House-Senate agreement on tax cut legislation. It ...
Museum of the City of NewYork: Renewing a Block and the Spirit of Its People: Photographs of Carmel Hill, Harlem by Bill Foley
Foley has also skillfully captured the change in attitudes among the block’s residents, a transformation from despair to hope, pride in accomplishment, and the spirit necessary to make it t...
American Association of Museums: Senate Efforts to Increase Funding for IMLS, NEA, and NEH
Please contact your Senators ASAP and urge them to support efforts to increase funding for ALL THREE cultural agencies (IMLS, NEA, and NEH) during consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill (S. 1292). As always, stress how funding from the...
California Museum of Photography: Suburbia: Photographs by Bill Owens
Both an exhibition and a photographic book, Suburbia is one of the landmarks of New Topographic photography. The 1972 volume was reissued in 1999 with additional captions by editor Robert Harshorn Shimshak and an in...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day
Viola studied at Syracuse University in New York in the early 1970s, and his experimentation with electronic arts led him to produce works of sound art as well as video installation. Viola's early contact with Nam June Paik, David Tudor, and other...
National Gallery: Bill Viola: The Passions
Artists and writers have long been preoccupied with the challenge of depicting and arousing emotion. In 2000 Bill Viola began to explore these forces in his work, drawing on the art of the past for inspiration. A departure from his room installati...
Beyond the Proscenium Productions: Wild Women Theatre Workshop
Bill Ritch and Karen James will direct the workshop. Bill and Karen recently collaborated on directing the Fair Oaks Civic Theatre's production of A Christmas Carol. The workshop will be held on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 PM from February 15...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Body Work: Photographs of Nudes
Edward Steichen, as a turn-of-the-century pictorialist, idealized the nude, making evocative, soft-focus images. Edward Weston, working after World War I, created Modernist images of women, often emphasizing abstrac...
National Essembly of State Arts Agencies: NEA FUNDING BILL ON HOLD UNTIL SENATE DEBATE RESUMES IN SEPTEMBER

Before adjournment, the issue of NEA funding came up in the form of an amendment, sponsored by Sens. Robert Smith (R-NH) and John Ashcroft (R-MO), to eliminate all money in the bill for the N...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center: Plains Indian Museum to Reopen
This nine-month renovation project is a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Plains Indian Museum. The new Plains Indian Museum will tell the significant story of the liv...
Aron Packer Gallery: Bill Gross: Monochrome
These smart, playful works derive from Gross’s preoccupation with the coexistence of abstract and representational art. While his compositions have identifiable elements, such as text from a meat packing company’s sign, the influence of mid-cen...
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: 51Degrees South
Gallery Director Tony Preston commented that the Tait Electronics Gallery is dedicated to Antarctic themes and the unique connection between the region and the city of Christchurch, long a starting point for Antarctic exploration and adventure. ...
Tacoma Art Museum: Bill Viola: Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath
In The Reflecting Pool, Viola employs the reflection of the pool as a device for perceiving the world. In it a man emerges from a forest and stops by a body of water. He jumps and time stops while he is left suspended in the air. All movement seen...
NEA, NEH: House Narrowly Defeats Move to Increase NEA/NEH Funds
While the NEA/NEH amendment was defeated, the close vote was a positive development moving Congress away from debating the agencies' survival to restoring them to more healthy levels of funding (historic highs for the agencies were $179.5 million ...
National Gallery of Canada: Bill Seaman: Red Dice
The videotape upon which the Red Dice installation is built was shot in June 1997 at several natural and industrial sites in the Ottawa area. The mechanical loom, the mill, the player piano, these recurrent images belong to another century yet...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Aspects of Architecture
Aspects of Architecture will be displayed in four sections: Making the Record, Construction, Looking in Detail and Architecture as Art. The images on display will range from Stonehenge, the Millennium Dome and the construction of the Paris Oper...
Canessa Gallery: Bill Jehle: Fountain Paintings Series
Jehle's paintings contain two elements--field and figure--that retain suggestion, opticality and emotion. The eye delights to see the intricate images advance or recede depending on the light and viewing position. The artist has employed little t...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: NY NY: Vintage Photographs From The Photo League and The New York School work by Lida Moser, Joe Schwartz, Erika Stone and Bill Witt
The work that Photo League members Moser, Schwartz, Stone and Witt produced is beautiful, textured and disturbing. These artists worked during tough times; the effects of the depression were everywhere evident, fascism was on the rise in Europe, l...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center: John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition - Mammals of North America
Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art Sarah Boehme explains, John James Audubon is associated with artistic images of birds, with conservation issues, and with geographic locations of the Deep South. He doesn't immediately spring to mind ...
Whangarei Art Museum: Capital! Locating Tradition: Placing Ourselves - Art from the Victoria University of Wellington Collection
WAM director Scott Pothan approached the Adam Art Gallery with the idea of touring key works from the collection, dispersed throughout the campus to a first-time gathering outside Wellington. Detail: Richard Killeen Welcome to the South Pacific 1...
Mobius, Fort Point Cultural Coalition: Industrial Inspiration: Images of the Old Northern Ave. Bridge
Each of the photographers examine the role of the Old Northern Avenue Bridge played in the city's rail and port development as well as the aesthetic value of this turn of the century industrial infrastructure. The opening reception will be hel...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Close Encounters of the Art Kind: Work By Tania Kovats, Langlands and Bell, Sarah Lucas, Keir Smith, Richard Wilson, Bill Woodrow
Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter. Pioneering projects at the National Gallery (At Home with Constable's Cornfield, 1996) and Tate Britain (At Home With Art, 1999-2000) built on Painter's y...
Autry Museum of Western Heritage: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Exhibits include an original 1867 Deadwood Stagecoach, bought by Buffalo Bill for $1,800 in 1911 and used during a scene from the show The Attack on the Deadwood Stage, in which audience members participated as cowboys. Annie Oakley's gold-plate...
Australian Center for Photography: The Liminal Body: an exhibition of the work of Jon Baturin (Can), Farrell and Parkin (Aus), Sue Fox (UK), Dieter Huber (Ost), Bill Jacobson (USA) and Diana Thorneycroft (Can).
This exhibition will explore the bacchic obverse of the apollonian Olympic paradigm - looking to other equally (perhaps more) human limits. The body on the brink of life/death; well...

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