Herbert Bayer was a Bauhaus artist, who was greatly influenced by Vassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and Paul Klee. He worked in various forms such as sculpture, print, painting, design, and architecture.
''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- New York Times, October 21, 1984 Herbert Bayer was intimately involved in the celebrated Bauhaus school in Germany in the 1920s and 30s: first as a student, and then as one of its directors. He em
American, born Austria. 1900–1985.
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Coinciding with the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, this exhibition presents rare works by the groundbreaking graphic designer Herbert Bayer (1900–1985). As a student and teacher at the Bauhaus, Bayer helped shape the discourse of modern graphic design. After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he worked in Berlin, where he designed commercial advertising and typefaces. He emigrated in 1938 to the US, where he worked as a designer and became a lifelong spokesman for the Bauhaus, amplifying the school’s mystique.
Artistic polymath Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents, advocating the integration of all arts throughout his career. Bayer began his studies as an architect in 1919 in Darmstadt. From 1921 to 1923 he attended the Bauhaus in Weimar, studying mural painting with Vasily Kandinsky and typography, creating the Universal alphabet, a typeface consisting of only lowercase letters that would become the signature font of the Bauhaus. Bayer returned to the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1928 (moving in 1926 to Dessau, its second location), working as a teacher of advertising, design, and typography, integrating photographs into graphic compositions. He began making his own photographs in 1928, after leaving the Bauhaus; however, in his years as a teacher the school was a fertile ground for the New Vision photography passionately promoted by his close colleague László Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy’s students, and his Bauhaus publication Malerei, Photographie, Film (Painting, photography, film). Most of Bayer’s photographs come from the decade 1928–38, when he was based in Berlin working as a commercial artist. They represent his broad approach to art, including graphic views of architecture (MoMA 1612.2001) and carefully crafted montages (MoMA 1611.2001).
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Herbert Bayer. Event. 1965. Lithograph. composition (irreg.): 16 11/16 × 22 15/16" (42.4 × 58.2 cm); sheet: 21 13/16 × 29 7/8" (55.4 × 75.9 cm). Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles. Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles. Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co. 1642.1967. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Associated Work. Drawings & Prints
Herbert Bayer. Painter, Designer, Architect is the first monograph of Herbert Bayer. His body of work as artist, architect, exhibition and industrial designer is presented on 212 pages, featuring more than 200 color and black-and-white reproductions. The book was designed by Bay
Herbert Bayer. Koralleschriften. 1926. Offset lithograph. 12 x 9 1/8" (30.5 x 23.2 cm). Jan Tschichold Collection, Gift of Philip Johnson. 582.1999. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Architecture & Design
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Established in 1971, the Annex Galleries is a salon style gallery which specializes in 19th, 20th and 21st century American and European fine prints. With an inventory of over 8000 works on paper (half of which are available on this website), our focus is American color woodcut, Arts and Crafts prints, WPA prints, modernist and Abstract Expressionist prints from the 1940s and 1960s, prints created at Atelier 17 in New York and Paris, and California prints and printmakers.
It's not everyday that I put together a more historical type post, however once I find one I often get bitten by the bug and a few follow in quick succession. So after sharing the wooden masterpieces of Alexandre Noll yesterday I went home and began reading about the Austrian multi-discipline designer and all round creative that was Herbert Bayer. He is someone who's work I've crossed paths with before however I'd never ...
From Peyton Wright Gallery, Herbert Bayer, Chromatic Intersection (1966), Acrylic on canvas, 40 × 40 in
