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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 [... mehr]
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