Max Bill

"Max Bill (1908-1996) is regarded as the founder of "Concrete Art." Bill defined it as "built on systems and logic applied to the elements of construction -- colors, light, movement, volume and space." Throughout his long and fertile career, Bill, a disciple of the Bauhaus School, demonstrated a rare ability to combine the "aesthetically pleasing with the simply practical." A very influential German school of art and design, the aesthetic of which was influenced by and derived from techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture-- steel, concrete, chrome, and glass for instance. It was founded in 1919, and closed by the Nazis in 1933, many of its teachers emigrating to the U.S.A. Walter Gropius (German-American, 1883-1969), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German-American, 1886-1969), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian-German, 1866-1944), Lyonel Feininger (American, 1871-1956), Paul Klee (Swiss-German, 1879-1940), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (German-American, 1895-1946), Josef Albers (German-American, 1899-1976) and other important artists were teachers there."