About Nelly Rudin Concrete
Nelly Rudin trained at the Basel Kunstgewerbeschule, drew for the Geigy pharmaceutical studio, and worked in Ernst Heiniger and Josef Müller-Brockmann's Zurich studio before turning the Swiss grid on objects instead of posters. Her picture-objects develop volume out of the flat surface: a plane is cut, hinged, turned and set into itself until it becomes a body.
The system takes her rule literally. Inner faces are white and dissolve into the wall; outer faces carry red, green, blue and yellow in fixed sequence. Nothing is tinted, nothing is blended, nothing is rounded. Every panel has a real side face and throws a real shadow.
- Origin
- Switzerland — Basel training, Zurich practice
- Era
- 1950–1990 — aluminium Rahmenobjekte from 1976, Acrylglasobjekte from 1981, Winkelobjekte from 1985
- Key figures
- Nelly Rudin · Max Bill · Josef Müller-Brockmann · Ernst A. Heiniger
- Movements
- Zürcher Konkrete · Swiss International Typographic Style · Concrete art
Nelly Rudin Concrete design spec
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