Zurich School of Concrete

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The Zurich School of Concrete is the Swiss version of Concrete Art .

history

The Zurich School of Concrete originated in the 1930s from the Zurich School of Applied Arts (later: School of Design , today: Zurich University of the Arts ) and had a worldwide impact. Important impulses for the artistic development get the concrete of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee .

Thanks to Max Bill , the term was expanded as follows:

Concrete art is what we call those works of art that have arisen on the basis of their very own means and laws - without any external reference to natural phenomena or their transformation, i.e. not through abstraction. concrete art is independent in its own way. it is the expression of the human spirit, intended for the human spirit, and it is of the sharpness, clarity and perfection that must be expected from the work of the human spirit. concrete painting and plastic is the design of what is visually perceptible. your design means are the colors, the space, the light and the movement ... concrete art is in its final consequence the pure expression of harmonious measure and law. she arranges systems and, with artistic means, gives life to these orders ... she strives for the universal and yet cultivates the unique. it pushes back the individualistic, in favor of the individual. "

- Max Bill

Artist of the Zurich School of Concrete

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Bill: concrete art, in: Exhibition catalog Zürcher Konkrete Kunst, 1949.