Max Bill

[Swiss Painter and Sculptor, 1908-1994]

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Original works by Max Bill available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Construction With and Within a Cube

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Variation 13, 1938

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Wall Clock, 1957

Calderara Foundation Collection, Milan, Italy
Strahledge Orange

DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Max Bill in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese)
Untitled (Metal Construction), 1937

Palm Springs Desert Museum, California NEW!
Construction, 1967

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

Pictures from Image Archives:

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Endless Ribbon

Web Sites About the Artist:

Max, Binia + Jakob Bill Foundation NEW!

Other Web Sites:

Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART) NEW!
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Articles:

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Bill
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Time Magazine
"Superb Puritan", 1974 article by Robert Hughes

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