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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. Contact
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