Max Bill (1908-1994)

Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Max Bill studied in Zurich and then at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he worked with Kandinsky, Klee and Albers. He was an architect, painter, sculptor and designer, and a leading figure in Concrete Art, which built pictures from mathematical ideas of colour and form. In the 1950s he co-founded the Ulm School of Design in Germany. White Centre is one of his screenprints from the early 1970s.