Herbert Bayer

Austria (1900—1885)

Herbert Bayer published his first typographic work at the age of nineteen, during his apprenticeship in the studio of architect Georg Schmidthammer in Linz. In 1921 he enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he attended Johannes Itten’s preliminary course and studied mural painting with Wassily Kandinsky. In 1925 he was appointed Jungmeister and head of the printing and advertising workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Three years later he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a graphic designer and art director at Studio Dorland, while continuing to develop his own work in painting and photography. He also worked for Vogue in Paris. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States, where he designed the installation and catalogue for the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Johannes Itten / Wassily Kandinsky

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Herbert Bayer