Max Bill

Swiss politician, artist and teacher, born in Winterthur, N Switzerland. He trained at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts (1924–7) and at the Bauhaus in Dessau (1927–9), later becoming director of the Institute for Design, Ulm (1951–6) and professor of enivonmental design at the Institute for Fine Arts, Hamburg (1967–74). Working as an architect as well as a painter, sculptor, and product designer, he developed the essential Bauhaus principles of co-operative design along purely functionalist lines. He was a delegate to the Swiss parliament (1967–71).

Max Bill (December 22, 1908 – December 8, 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, and designer.

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. 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.

Max Bill, a member of the Swiss 'Zurich Concrete' group, was an architect, painter, sculptor, politician, educationalist, writer, in short, a 'universal creator'. • 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.