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Quattro libri - Un catalogo di mostra - Bill, Max
(Winterthur 1908 - Berlino 1994)
Konkrete Kunst. 10 Einzelwerke ausländischer Künstler aus Basler Sammlungen - 20 ausgewählte grafische Blätter - 30 Photos nach Werken ausländischer Künstler…, Basel, Basel Kunsthalle, 1944 (March), 21.1x14.7 cm., Paperback, pp. 64 (16).
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Cover and layout by Max Bill. 32 tables b.n. n.t. with works by: W. Baumeister, V. Egglin, J. Hélion, El Lissitzky, K. Malewitsch, L. Moholy-Nagy, A. Pevsner, K. Schwitters, A. Magnelli, C. Brancusi, A. Calder, N Gabo, F. Kupka, M. Moss, B. Nicholson, RP Lohse, W. Bodmer, L. Leuppi, M. Bill, H. Arp and many others. Introductory texts by Max Bill and Jean Arp. Print run of 900 copies. Copy belonging to the architect Paolo Antonio Chessa (Milan 1922 - Pescara 1981), with his autograph monogram on the cover. Attached is a typed letter that accompanies the book's homage, on "Basler Kunstverein" letterhead, dated 16 September 1944 and signed by an executive, addressed to Paolo Antonio Chessa. Original catalog of the first concrete art exhibition (Basel, Kunsthalle, 18 March - 16 April 1944) .- United: BILL Max, Wiederaufbau. Dokumente über Zerstörungen Planungen Konstruktionen, Erlenbach - Zürich, Verlag für Architektur AG, 1945, 21x15 cm., Paperback paperback with flap, 176, illustrated cover and over 300 images with black and white photographic reproductions, plans and elevations of houses and prefabricated buildings designed by Le Corbusier, Alfred Roth, Buckminster Fuller, Martin Wagner, Hugh Stubbins and many others. First edition. - Kingdom: BILL Max, Form. Eine Bilanz über die Formentwicklung um die Mitte des XX. Jahrhunderts / A Balance Sheet of Mid-Twentieth-Century Trends in Design / Un Bilan de l'Evolution de la Forme au Milieu du XXe Siecle, Zürich, Karl Werner, 1952, cm. 22.4x21.5, editorial binding on canvas, jacket, pp. 168- (1), illustrated cover in black and white, over 150 black and white illustrations with experimental photographic images, sculptures, furniture and design objects made by HE Edgerton, Carl Pearson, Max Bill, Albert Lenartz, Zdenek Kovar, Marcello Nizzoli ("Letter 22"), Helen Haussmann, Alvar Aalto, Nils Landberg, Charles Eames, Eero SaarinenBernard Rudofsky and many others. After the publication of this book, Max Bill with Inge Aicher-Scholl and Otl Aicher founded the Ulm School of Design in Germany, a school initially created in the Bauhaus tradition and which later developed a new educational approach to design by integrating art and science . - Kingdom: BILL Max - PLUESS Eduard, Max Bill, Winterthur, Kunstwerein Winterthur, 1960 (April), 21x14.7 cm., Paperback, pp. 27 (13), cover with typographic composition of titles, 8 illustrations b.n. in 4 tables f.t. Design and layout by Max Bill. Text by Eduard Plüss. Exhibition catalog (Winterthur, Kunstwerein Winterthur, 3 April - 22 May 1960) .- United: BILL Max - LE CORBUSIER [Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris], Le Corbusier et P. (Pierre) Jeanneret. Oeuvre complète 1934 -1938. Publié par Max Bill architecte Zurich. Textes par Le Corbusier, Zurich, Editions Dr. H. Girsberger, 1939, 29x23.5 cm., Editorial binding in canvas, jacket, pp. 175 (1), two-color illustrated cover and layout by Max Bill, over 300 black and white figures and illustrations with images of the projects and creations of the architects le Corbusier and P. Jeanneret. Introduction by Max Bill. French, German and English text. writings of P. Winter and Le Corbusier. First edition.
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