Friday, 8 August 2025, 8 PM 

We cordially invite you to a screening of the film MAX BILL – THE MASTER'S VISION (German with English subtitles). Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Erich Schmid and Angela Thomas Schmid (max bill georges vantongerloo foundation).

This documentary explores the life of Max Bill (1908–1994) at the intersection of art, aesthetics, and politics. It offers new insights into the Bauhaus student, artist, architect, and designer—particularly into his identity as a politically engaged leftist intellectual, whose convictions were inseparable from his work.

Through close collaboration with Bill’s widow, Angela Thomas Schmid, and the use of numerous personal archival materials, the film paints an intimate portrait of an artist who remained committed to speaking out throughout his life.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Please register via: info@miesvanderrohehaus.de

For more information about the film click here

The exhibition focuses on the early work of the Swiss universal artist Max Bill (1908-1994). It spans a wide range from the artist's works from his Bauhaus period, through watercolors of strong form and color from 1932/33, to works of Concrete Art that herald his era at the HfG Ulm. In addition, Max Bill's design for a mural with a capital "O" from 1932 will be realized for the first time on the walls of the Mies van der Rohe House as part of the exhibition. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with a text by Angela Thomas and a newly published monograph by Max Bill on Mies van der Rohe, which was first published in Italian by Il Balcone in 1955. 

Insights into the exhibition here

The renowned art historian and former head of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation collection, Wolfgang Thöner, and the former chief form designer of the GDR, Prof. Martin Kelm, talk about the reception of Max Bill in the cultural-political context of the GDR and analyze how his classification was shaped by the specific Bauhaus discourse of the GDR. 

As head of the “Office for Industrial Design” and as a teacher at the Giebichenstein School of Art, Martin Kelm had a major influence on the development of GDR design. Wolfgang Thöner is the author of numerous books and texts on Bauhaus history and Bauhaus reception, especially in East Germany from 1945 to 1990. 

Click here for the video

Video production © Nicklas Stellhorn & Jan Schulze - Apedivision

The new podcast “bauhaus faces” by Anja Guttenberger is dedicated to the fascinating life stories of students and teachers of the legendary and famous Bauhaus.

This time, she dedicates three exciting podcast episodes to the work and influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In conversation with Fritz Neumeyer, Wita Noack and Aya Soika, she sheds light on formative chapters in the life of this architectural icon and opens up new perspectives on his work:

Part 1 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Wita Noack and Fritz Neumeyer

Part 2 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Aya Soika

Bonus Episode 1 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Wita Noack deutsch

Bonus Episode 2 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Fritz Neumeyer deutsch

Click here for the homepage of bauhaus faces with more exciting podcasts!

The catalog for the exhibition of the same name has been published:

Max Bill and the impact of Bauhaus ideas

Wita Noack (ed.)

with a text by Angela Thomas

106 pages with 37 illustrations, 120 x 165 mm, softcover

form + zweck 
ISBN 978-3-947045-36-5

Max Bill had been working since 1948 on one of the earliest
tributes to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which he
finally published in 1955 in the series “architetti del
movimento moderno” published by ‘il balcone’ in Milan.
The Mies van der Rohe House is taking the
exhibition “Max Bill and the impact of Bauhaus ideas” 
as an opportunity to republish the monograph in German.
 

Max Bill: Mies van der Rohe

Wita Noack (ed.)

102 pages with 45 illustrations, 120 x 165 mm, softcover

form + zweck 
ISBN 978-3-947045-35-8
Price on request