Max Bill and His Time 19081939. Max Bill 1908 1994 was a Swiss polymath bridging the worlds of design, architecture, art, publishing, advertising, and politics.This first part of acomprehensive monograph retraces Bills biography from his childhood to his Bauhaus training, his return to Zurich, and on until the late 1930s.The reader discovers a young Bill characterised by commitment, clarity in thinking, a highly critical mind, and a growing network of artists.Part biography, part eulogy, part memoir, this publication proposes insights into the pre-World War II cultural milieu of a European community of artists,