Max Bill – The Master’s Vision

Feb 02, 2012

(Erich Schmid, 2008, Switzerland, 35mm, 93 min)

Director in attendance!

Co-Presented by University of Washington

This film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important Swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect  and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.
 
Special guest!
Dr. Angela Thomas is an art historian and was the widow of Max Bill. She wrote her dissertation about the Belgian "De Stijl" artist Georges Vantongerloo. Since 1998 she has been maried to the filmmaker and author Erich Schmid who will also be in attendance.

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