MA-g
The Museum of Avant-garde

Herbert Bayer

Austria (1900—1885)
During his first apprenticeship Bayer published his first typographic work at the age of 19, before enrolling as a student at Bauhaus, attending courses under Itten and Kandinsky. In 1925 he was appointed head of workshop for print and advertising at Dessau Bauhaus. Three year later he moved to Berlin working as graphic designer at Studio Dorland and creating his own work in painting, photography and later becoming art director for Vogue magazine in Paris. In 1938 he moved to the US launching the exhibition Bauhaus 1919-1928 at the MOMA. He moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he continued to work as a painter, designer, architect, landscape designer and consultant. He moved later to California, where he died in 1985.
Johannes Itten / Wassily Kandinsky
Herbert Bayer

Region in old age

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1951 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Polyphemos

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Variation on a source of light

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

History of a landscape

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Motif in Taormina

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Beach graphics

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Wall in the sun

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1959 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Arid landscape

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1953 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Homage to sicilian nights

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Variation on a source of light (II)

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

PM

An intimate journal for art directors, production managers, and their associates / Magazine / Letterpress / 13.6 x 20.3 cm / New York, 1939

Herbert Bayer

Zeus

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Transmutation

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1948 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Ominous dawn

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Willi Baumeister / Max Bill / Andreas Feininger / Lyonel Feininger / Naum Gabo / Hannes Meyer / Walter Peterhans / Gerrit Rietveld / Oskar Schlemmer / Joost Schmidt / Erich Consemüller / T. Lux Feininger / Werner David Feist / Lotte Gerson-Collein / Josef Albers / Herbert Bayer / Johannes Itten / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / László Moholy-Nagy / Paul Klee

Bauhaus

Zeitschrift für Gestaltung / Journal / Letterpress / 21 x 29.5 cm / Dessau, 1926-1931 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

+
More images
Herbert Bayer

Violin and frames

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1928 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Span

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Stratification

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1948 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Cosmorama

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1957 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Culture of elements

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Veil mountain

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1952 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Germaine Krull / Lucia Moholy / Anton Stankowski / Eugène Atget / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Aenne Biermann / Max Burchartz / Hans Finsler / Martin Munkácsi / Maurice Tabard / Herbert Bayer / Florence Henri / André Kertész / László Moholy-Nagy / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Edward Steichen

Arts et métiers graphiques 16

Photographie / Magazine / 24 x 30.9 cm / Paris, 1930 / © 1930, Arts et Métiers Graphiques Paris

+
More images
Herbert Bayer

Ascension

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Hills of Tuscany

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Untitled

Bayrisches Landhaus / Original photography / Gelatin silver print / 25.2 x 37.7 cm / 1930 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Herbert Bayer

Convolution in the sky

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1948 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Motion along a horizontal

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1953 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Graphic islands

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Tuscan silhouettes

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Forest shadows

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1949 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Splitting a ray of light

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Habitat of the spirit

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Wind blown

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Accent

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Denuded mountain

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1948 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Devil’s kitchen

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1951 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Soft beat of time

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Horizontal

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1959 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Fire symbol

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1959 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Melting

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1951 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Linear structure

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1959 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Soft and black

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1954 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Celestial acrobats

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Oskar Schlemmer / Herbert Bayer / Walter Gropius / Wassily Kandinsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Paul Klee

Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress and lithographs / 25.1 x 25.5 cm / Berlin, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Herbert Bayer

Scars and tracks

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1951 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Light over stairs

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1955 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America

Herbert Bayer

Disturbulence

From Book of drawings / Offset lithograph after original drawing / 26.8 x 27.8 cm / 1951 / 1961 / © 1961, Container Corporation of America