Max Bill was a great Swiss polymath: an artist, architect, industrial designer, graphic designer, and teacher. He attended the Bauhaus where he was taught by Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. Bill remained closely associated with the Bauhaus school and was a key figure in developing and propagating its principles, especially through his professorship at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich and as a founder of the Ulm School of Design.

The Bauhaus was arguably the single most influential modernist art school of the 20th century. Its approach to teaching, and to the relationship between art, society, and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and in the United States long after its closure under Nazi pressure in 1933. The Bauhaus was influenced by 19th and early-20th-century artistic directions such as the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as Art Nouveau and its many international incarnations, including the Jugendstil and Vienna Secession.

Maurits Cornelis Escher was an artist from the Netherlands who was known for incorporating mathematical equations into his lithographs and woodcuts. He represents the perfect coming together of mathematics and art. Although he is most known for his impossible constructions, he also created some wonderful realistic graphic art. M. C. Escher’s artworks were not that popular during his tenure as an artist, even in his own country. M.C. Escher is one of the world’s most famous graphic artists.

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Hannes Wallrafen is a highly acclaimed Dutch/German photographer who lost his eyesight 10 years ago at the height of his career. Wallrafen is famous for his staged photography through which he seeks to translate time into engineered images. His work can be regarded as personal interpretations of local history: storytelling at its core. In the seventies and eighties Wallrafen used his camera to denounce injustice.

Luigi Colani was a pioneering German industrial designer whose varied oeuvre includes objects from sunglasses to trucks and furniture. “We should look to the superiority of nature for the solutions,” the artist said when describing the influence of nature on his designs. “If we want to tackle a new task in the studio, then it’s best to go outside first and look at what millennia-old answers there may already be to the problem.” The designer’s works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, among others.

Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward Hopper, but Martin Lewis was his mentor.

Today's social media landscape can make anonymity hard to come by. And yet, Banksy, the British graffiti artist whose works have caught the eye of average viewers and critics alike for decades has managed to maintain his. The elusive figure has succeeded in rising to great fame and navigating the art world without ever revealing his true identity. His art is sharply critical, putting modern societal ills on display with a unique brand of satire and stenciling.