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Signed Mid Century Marble Sculpture "Kubus" on Ebonized Walnut Base by Max Bill
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This beautiful Mid Century Modern marble sculpture, entitled "Kubus", was realized by the renowned Swiss sculptor Max Bill in 1966. It features a beveled gray marble body sitting on an ebonized walnut base- which creates a striking juxtaposition and beautifully highlights the materiality of each. The austere yet wonderfully compelling form illustrates the geometrical abstractions of Bill's mathematical thinking, and his preoccupation with reinterpreting contructivism. Its minimalist silhouette recalls the artist's Bauhaus training, and manifests the maxim "less is more." This piece is decorative yet intellectually engaging modernist fine art sculpture great for a grand office or stylish design interior. The work is signed, incised and numbered 12/100.
Max Bill was a Swiss artist and designer who founded the Concrete Art movement. He is perhaps best known for his interpretations of Constructivism through structured paintings and spherical sculptures, bringing studied geometry and mathematics into his art practice. “I am of the opinion that it is possible to develop an art largely on the basis of mathematical thinking,” Bill had once written. A preeminent graphic designer and typographer, he was born on December 22, 1908 in Winterthur, Switzerland and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zürich from 1924-1927, then with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus school in Dessau for the next two years. He was later a co-founder of the Ulm School of Arts and Crafts, where he was the head of the architecture and product design departments during the 1950s, and served on the Swiss Parliament from 1967-1971. Bill died on December 9, 1994 in Berlin at the age of 85.
Switzerland, 1966
Dimensions:
5.75" H X 5.25" W X 5.25" D.
- Creator:Max Bill (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)Width: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)Depth: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1966
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- Seller Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU79346421693
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