Herbert Bayer

Two Sinking Spheres, 1971.

HerbertBayer

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Biography

Herber Bayer

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.

• education and teaching
• the Bauhaus
• design fundamentals
• exhibits & preservation

Herbert Bayer, The Bauhaus Legacy, Kent Gallery, New York, 2003.

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Works& influence

"Conceived as an artist's utopia, the Bauhaus developed from a “blend of profound depression resulting from the lost war with its breakdown of intellectual and economic life, and the ardent hope and desire to build up to something new from these ruins."

03. Humanly Impossible, Herbert Bayer, 1932

“[A]rt of the future...would go...out into the street, to the people, into the environment.” Herbert Bayer

Single-alphabet- geometric sans-serif - lowercase letters - simple shapes - inspired by the school ideals & avant-garde philosophy

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Blackletters- hard to read - hard to reproduce - hard to print

Typography

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968, Exhibition Poster

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World Geographic Atlas, 1953

Design

Four Warped Squares, ca. 1975

“Tendre Tableau E" 1928

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Paintings

Fotomontagen : Lonely Metropolitan, 1932

The Lonely Metropolitan, 1932

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Photomontages

• Polymath : esprit/génie universel, personne avec un savoir très divers.
• Prominent : important, éminent, remarquable
• Weaving : tissage
• Letterpress : impression typographique
• Severed : coupé, sectionné
• Slice : tranche
• Easel : chevalet

Vocabulary

• https://encyclopedia.design/2023/05/28/herbert-bayer-the-bauhaus-legacy-hardcover/
• https://www.linearity.io/blog/bauhaus-movement/
• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/upload/BayerCatlge_Final-2.pdf
• https://www.thefoundrytypes.com/fonts/architype-bayer/
• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/herbert-bayer-711
• https://www.moma.org/artists/399
• https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cx4Xra

References

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Sources & vocab