His collaboration with junghans began during his time as rector at the ulm college of design hfg.
Max bill wall clock 1956.
His work was influenced by the bauhaus philosophy and therefore always reduced to the essentials.
Max bill was a hugely influential founder of the concrete art movement not only through his variegated career as a sculptor painter and industrial and graphic designer but also as a prolific writer scholar and teacher.
Restrained elegant and enduring his minimal approach to design allows for pure expression of form and proportion.
Case dimension is 30cm 12.
12 3 4 32 4 cm credit philip johnson fund object number.
Bill had early ambitions to be a silversmith but quickly changed his focus to architecture after seeing the work of le corbusier.
Max bill was a hugely influential founder of the concrete art movement not only through his variegated career as a sculptor painter and industrial and graphic designer but also as a prolific writer scholar and teacher.
Fascinated by time bill accepted the offer and released his first piece a wall clock in 1956.
1861 medium chrome plated and painted metal dimensions d.
In 1956 max bill began a collaboration that would cement his name in the world of horology.
Restrained elegant and enduring his minimal approach to design allows for pure expression of form and proportion.
Re issue of the original junghans 1956 wall clock.
Powered by quartz j738 in house mvmt by junghans.
Junghans a german watch company founded in 1871 approached bill to design a set of watches and clocks for the brand.
The max bill wall clock can be easily mounted to any wall and runs on a single aa battery.
The max bill wall clock can be easily mounted to any wall and runs on a single aa battery.
2 3 8 6 cm diam.
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From 1956 he designed kitchen table and wall clocks here which made design history.
Max bill wall clock model 32 0389 1957 not on view.
Sep 8 2015 designed in 1956 max bill s wall clock perfectly illustrates one of design s hallmark adages.
Junghans max bill edition set 2018 363 2816 00.
Designed in 1956 max bill s wall clock perfectly illustrates one of design s hallmark adages.
Bill had early ambitions to be a silversmith but quickly changed his focus to architecture after seeing the work of le corbusier.