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Revision as of 13:30, 21 September 2009
About
- Bayer, Herbert (April 5, 1900 - September 30, 1985 )
Bayer was born in Haag, a village near Salzburg in Northern Austria. At nineteen, he took an apprenticeship with the designer and architect Georg Schmidthamer in the Upper Austrian capital of Linz. There he created typographical letterheads, posters and advertisements.
The following year, Bayer left for Darmstadt, Germany, where worked at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony to work as an assistant in the studio of Viennese architect Emmanuel Margold. At Darmstadt, Bayer studied the Art Nouveau and developed an interest in the Bauhaus movement led by Walter Gropius.
In 1921, Bayer left Darmstadt and was interviewed in Weimar, Germany by Gropius, who accepted him into the Bauhaus, at the time Germany’s premiere design school. At Bauhaus, Bayer who had initially studied as an architect, began to study typography and mural painting under the tutelage of professor/artists like Johannes Itten, László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky.
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