[1] Max G. Bollag was born into a long-established Jewish family and grew up in Zurich with his sisters Suzanne, Amélie and his twin, Mary.
[3][4] Max Bollag opened a Gallery Modern Art Center on Zurich's Rämistrasse and shortly afterwards in the Zunfthaus zur Meisen.
[5][6] Bollag showed paintings by Cuno Amiet, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Alberto Giacometti, and also early works by Pablo Picasso, among others.
Picasso's Still Life with Portrait, which was stolen during the Nazi period from Dr Meyer-Udewald, reappeared after World War II at the Bollag gallery which sold it to the Galerie Benador in Geneva from which the Phillips Collection acquired it.
[12] Museums throughout the world have artworks that Bollag sold, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[13] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art[14] A sale of artworks from Bollag's was organized by Christies in 2018.