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Herbert Bayer

 
Herbert Bayer

graphic designer, painter, photographer, and architect
(Haag am Hausruck, Austria, 1900 - 1985, Montecito, California)

Note: Bayer worked variously as advertising artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, architect and landscape designer, reflecting his training at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1925. In 1925, he took over the printing and advertising offices of the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he designed Bauhaus publications. Photography became his preferred mode of expression in the 1930s and his work from this period shows the influence of Surrealism. His photomontages typically show blended levels of reality and dreamlike images. He moved to New York in 1938 where he curated two Bauhaus exhibitions which toured internationally from 1967 to 1971. American architect and author, former member of Bauhaus. active: 1921 -1938 Germany (Europe) (nation) active: 1938-1975 New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

2 objects

Wall with Shingles

1936 (printed 1969)
gelatin silver print
Gift, In honor of Margot Miller's graduation, 2010, from her grandparents
2010.22
 

Glass Eyes (from Bauhaus Portfolio II)

ca. 1928 (printed 1984)
gelatin silver print on paper
Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund
2018.21.1