Max Bill

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Max Bill shortly before his death in 1994 (RDB) RDB

Max Bill Square in Zurich Oerlikon, completed in 2004 (Keystone) Keystone

Max Bill sculpture in a park in Winterthur, 1997 (Keystone) Keystone

Auswechslungen (Substitutions), oil on canvas (1983) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

Lavoitobel Bridge in Tamins, canton Graubünden (1966-67) (Bill Foundation, Adligenswil)

Verdichtung zu Blau (Compression to Blue), oil on canvas (1965) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

Ein schwarz bis acht weiss (One Black to Eight Whites), oil on canvas (1955) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

IFG Ulm design school (1950-55) (Ernst Scheidegger, NZZ)

Lamp designed for Novelectric (1952) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

Max Bill with his sculpture "Hexagon in Room with Equally Long Walls" (1947) (Ernst Scheidegger, NZZ)

Magische Chromographie (Magic Chromography), oil on canvas (1944-46) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

First print of a Bill-designed advertisement (1931) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

Tall vase, copper and brass (1926-27) (Pro Litteris, Zurich)

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Two Winterthur museums honour Switzerland's "universal artist".

Max Bill (1908-1994) left behind a legacy not only as a top painter and sculptor, but also as an architect, graphic designer, author and teacher. The art gallery and the Museum of Design in Winterthur are celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with showings of his work.