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Article: OBITUARIES
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 15, 1994
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The Swiss artist Max Bill spent only two years as a student at
the Bauhaus in Dessau, but they were the most formative of his long
and enormously productive life.
Educated, like so many of his fellow Bauhusler, to master a
variety of artistic disciplines and see each in a scientific or
technological context, Bill was remarkably versatile. Equally
distinguished as an architect, industrial designer, typographer,
painter and sculptor, he was also an influential theorist, teacher,
administrator and exhibition organiser. He even dabbled in politics
for a time. Having served on Zurich City Council, he was elected to
the Swiss National Parliament in 1967 and remained a n active
member until 1971.
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