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Max Bill Biography

Max Bill – a product of the Bauhaus generation, pupil of Walter Gropius and kindred spirit of le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe – was a virtuoso designer and creative artist, as his diverse activities as a painter, architect, sculptor, teacher and designer amply demonstrate. his work is characterised by a clarity of design and precise proportions which are unrivaled to this day.

Max bill by Junghans is available in the form of wristwatches and wall clocks wherever clocks and watches and good design are to be found.

Max Bill Chronology

1908
born on 22nd December in winterthur/Switzerland.

1924–27
silversmith’s apprenticeship at the school of arts and crafts in Zurich.

1925
a lecture by le Corbusier inspires him to study architecture.

1927/28
student at the Bauhaus, college of design in Dessau.

1929
moves to Zurich. From then on, active as an architect, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, publicist and product designer.

1944/45
teaches theory of form at the school of arts and crafts in Zurich.

1947
establishes the “institute for progressive culture”.

1951–56
Co-founder and architect of the college of design in ulm.

1961–64
chief architect of the ”creation and design” sector of the Swiss national exhibition in Lausanne.

1967–74
professor at the state college of graphic arts in hamburg. 1994 died in Berlin on 9th December.