A Subversive Gleam: Max Bill and His Time: 1908-1939

The early life of a modernist polymath and concrete-art pioneer: the first of a new multi-volume biography by Bill's widow, art historian Angela Thomas

Swiss artist Max Bill (1908-94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect, graphic designer, painter, industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Bill developed his own unique practice of integrated design under their tutela...