# Alfons Bach

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{{short description|German painter}}
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| birth_date       = 1904
| birth_place      = [Magdeburg](/source/Magdeburg), Germany
| death_date       = August 19, 1999
| death_place      = [Pensacola](/source/Pensacola), Florida, U.S.
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| notable_works    = Remodeling of Sach's and the Seneca Textile Building
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'''Alfons Bach''' (1904 – August 19, 1999) was a German [industrial design](/source/industrial_design)er and [watercolor](/source/watercolor) [painter](/source/painting). He is known for his architectural design projects and his tubular steel furniture, which have been described as "icons for their period."<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=Alfons Bach, 95, Designer of Tubular Furniture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/23/arts/alfons-bach-95-designer-of-tubular-furniture.html|work=Arts|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=1 October 2012}}</ref>

==Early life and career==

Alfons Bach was born in [Magdeburg](/source/Magdeburg), Germany. He grew up in [Munich](/source/Munich). He attended school in [Berlin](/source/Berlin).<ref name=NYT/> He moved to the United States in 1926, settling in [New York, New York](/source/New_York%2C_New_York). Before his move, he had studied [film](/source/film) and [design](/source/design).<ref name=CH>{{cite web|title=Alfons Bach|url=http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18053553/|work=Collection|publisher=Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum|accessdate=1 October 2012}}</ref>

==Career==

Bach designed the remodeling of [Sach's](/source/Sach's_(retail_store)) and the [Seneca Textile Building](/source/Seneca_Textile_Building), both in New York City.<ref name=CH/> His work was exhibited in early contemporary industrial art shows at the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).<ref name=NYT/> In 1938 he designed his own home in [Stamford, Connecticut](/source/Stamford%2C_Connecticut). He led the project to build the [Ridgeway Shopping Center](/source/Ridgeway_Shopping_Center), one of the first [shopping mall](/source/shopping_mall)s in the United States.<ref name=CH/> Bach designed tubular steel furniture in the 1930s for the Lloyd Manufacturing Company. They continued to produce his pieces until 1947. These tubular pieces are considered a link between [Bauhaus](/source/Bauhaus) and modern design style.<ref name=NYT/> He moved to Florida in 1959. He designed the Palm Trail Plaza and Palm Trail Yacht Club in [Delray Beach](/source/Delray_Beach%2C_Florida).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/across-the-nationacross-the-world/2011/urbane-developments-miami-delray|title=Urbane Developments: Miami & Delray|author=Mayhew, Augustus |date=11 July 2011|work=New York Social Diary|accessdate=6 February 2017}}</ref> He curated the United States exhibition at the International Industrial Design Exhibition in 1969.<ref name=CH/> He designed work for [General Electric](/source/General_Electric), Keystone Silver, Pacific Mills and Bigelow-Samford. He served as president of the [American Designers Institute](/source/American_Designers_Institute).<ref name=NYT/>

==Later life and death==

In 1992, he moved to Pensacola, Florida where he died in a nursing home on August 19, 1999, at the age of 95.<ref name=NYT/><ref>{{cite news |title=Alfons Bach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pensacola-news-journal-obituary-for-alfo/130045817/ |access-date=15 August 2023 |work=Pensacola News Journal |date=21 August 1999}}</ref>

==Legacy==

His work is held in the collection of the [Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum](/source/Cooper-Hewitt%2C_National_Design_Museum) and the [Yale University Art Gallery](/source/Yale_University_Art_Gallery).<ref name=NYT/><ref name=CH/> A set of 17th-century sliding-door panels from a [Zen](/source/Zen) temple in [Kyoto, Japan](/source/Kyoto%2C_Japan), owned by Bach and his wife, Anita, reside in the collection of the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).<ref name=NYT/>

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Category:1904 births
Category:1999 deaths
Category:German industrial designers
Category:German watercolourists
Category:Artists from Magdeburg
Category:Painters from Saxony-Anhalt
Category:People from Pensacola, Florida
Category:20th-century German painters
Category:20th-century German male artists
Category:German male painters
Category:Mid-century modern
Category:Date of birth missing

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