Private Life
After a liaison with Nusch Éluard, in 1931, Bill married the cellist and photographer Binia Spoerri, who died in 1988. From 1974 he was living together with art historian Angela Thomas; they married in 1991.
Bill was also involved in politics. He was elected to the Zurich municipal council in 1961. From 1967 to 1971, he served as a member of the Swiss National Council.
Bill died en route to a hospital after collapsing from a heart attack at Berlin Tegel Airport. He was 85 and lived in Zumikon, a Zürich suburb. In 1996, Jakob Bill, the son of Max and Binia Bill, founded the Max Bill Foundation and implemented the idea of his father. The purpose of the foundation is to collect and take care of the works in possession of the Bill family, as well as the promotion of scientific research.
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