von konstruktiver klarheit. Max bill und seine zeit 19401952

The second installment of art historian Dr. Angela Thomas' German-language, multi-volume biography of her husband Max Bill, providing a highly unconventional and intimate account of the Swiss polymath's life and work during World War II and the postwar period. Max Bill (19081994) was one of the most versatile artists of the 20th Century, working as a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic artist, furniture designer, typographer, writer, curator, educator, lecturer and politician. In her multivolume biography, art historian Angela Thomas uses a variety of sourcesbooks, journals, interviews and several unpublished documentsto introduce readers to the artists life and work and to explore the personal, cultural and political circles he was active in. Following the first volume of the biography, published in 2008, Thomas now devotes the second installment to Bills life during World War II and the postwar period.