Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Wall with Shingles

Preview image of work. gelatin silver print, Wall with Shingles 19827

2010.22

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Wall with Shingles

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Artist

Herbert Bayer (Haag am Hausruck, Austria, 1900 - 1985, Montecito, California)

Title

Wall with Shingles

Creation Date

1936 (printed 1969)

Century

early/mid 20th century

Dimensions

9 13/16 in. x 13 1/4 in. (24.92 cm x 33.66 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

Europe, Germany

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Gift, In honor of Margot Miller's graduation, 2010, from her grandparents

Copyright

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Accession Number

2010.22

Inspired by a rural Austrian custom of hanging tools on barn walls, Herbert Bayer made fantastical paintings depicting abstracted, non-functional objects, hung in barn-like spaces where clouds float indoors. In Wall with Shingles and other photographs from his Fotoplastiken series, Bayer recreated the effect by arranging and photographing sculptural tableaus, and then manipulating the images through montage and airbrushing techniques. Starting out as a graphic designer for the Bauhaus School in Germany, Bayer went on to have a long and successful career spanning many media and two continents.