biographie de Herbert BAYER (1900-1985)

Birth place: Haag, Austria

Addresses: Aspen, CO

Profession: Painter, architect, designer, photographer

Studied: Real Gym., Linz, Austria; archit. with Schmidthammer, Linz, 1919; with Emmanuel Margold, Darmstadt, Ger., 1920; wall paintings with Vassily Kandinsky, 1921; Bauhaus, Weimar, 1921-23.

Exhibited: AIC; SFMA, 1949; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg; Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, 1957; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1960; Corcoran Gal., 1961; Marlborough Gal., NYC, 1971.

Member: Alliance Graphicque Int.; Am. Abstr. Artists; Int. Design Conf., Aspen, Colo.

Work: SFMA; MoMA; Guggenheim Mus.; Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich; Denver Art Mus. Commissions: murals: Bauhaus Bldg., Weimar; Commons Bldg., Grad Cntr., Harvard Univ.; Elem. Sch., Bridgewater, MA; Health Cntr., Aspen, Colo.; designed articulated wall construction for 1968 Olympics, Mexico City.

Comments: Positions: art dir., Vogue, Ger.; dir., Dorland Studio, Berlin, 1928-1938, art dir., Dorland Int., NY; consult design, Aspen Inst.; chmn. dept. design, Container Corp. Am., 1956-65; consult., Atlantic Richfield Co., 1965-c.74. Publications: articles in Gebrauchs-Graphik, College Art Journal, Bauhaus, and Linea Grafica.

Sources: WW73; George Rickey, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution (Braziller, 1967); Hans M Wingler, Graphic Work from Bauhaus (NY Graphic Soc, 1968); Eberhard Roters, Painters of the Bauhaus, (Praeger, 1969).