Max Bill
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Max Bill (December 22, 1908 – December 8, 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, and designer.
After an apprenticeship as a silversmith, Bill took up studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau. He later taught at Bauhaus.
In 1944, he became a professor at the school of arts in Zurich.
In 1950, Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill founded the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany (HfG Ulm), a design school in the tradition of the Bauhaus, which was however closed again in 1968.
Among Bill's most famous designs is the "Ulmer Hocker" of 1954, a stool that can also be used as a shelf element or a side table. Although the stool was a creation of Bill and Dutch designer Hans Gugelot, it is often called "Bill Hocker" because the first sketch on a cocktail napkin was Bill's work.Bill sought to create forms which visually represent the mathematical complexity of the New Physics of the early 20th century.He sought to create objects so that this new science of form could be understood by the senses.
A large granite sculpture by Max Bill was installed adjacent to the Bahnhofstrasse, Zürich in 1983. As is often the case with modern art in public places, the installation generated some controversy.
Max Bill, a member of the Swiss 'Zurich Concrete' group, was an architect, painter, sculptor, politician, educationalist, writer, in short, a 'universal creator'. Max Bill was born in Winterthur in 1908 and died in Berlin in 1994. • Apprenticed as a silversmith in 1924-1927. • Studied at the Bauhaus art school in Dessau, under many teachers including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer in 1927-1929 • 1967-1971 he became a member of the Swiss National Council, then became a professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, and became chair of environmental design in 1967-1974 1972 • 1976 full, member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. • 1973 he became an associate member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science, Literature and Fine Art, in Brussels.
