Max Alois Bach was a German genre, animal and landscape painter, as well as an etcher and lithographer.

Bach was a son of the royal Bavarian market clerk Franz de Paula Bach. He studied painting from April 30, 1827 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Heinrich Hess. However, he did not devote himself to the "old saints" but turned to painting of soldiers and battles by his brother Peter von Hess. His landscapes were influenced by the painters Albrecht Adam, Heinrich Bürkel, Max Josef Wagenbauer and Philips Wouwerman.

Bach married Friederike Luise (née Obermair) on June 1, 1838. The couple had five daughters. He was one of the friends of the painter Carl Spitzweg, for whose painting he also designed preliminary drawings.