Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect.
13 Facts About Herbert Bayer
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Herbert Bayer was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.
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In 1923 Herbert Bayer met the photographer Irene Herbert Bayer-Hecht at the first large Bauhaus exhibit in Weimar.
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In 1928, Herbert Bayer left the Bauhaus to become art director of Vogue magazine's Berlin office.
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Herbert Bayer remained in Germany far later than most other progressives.
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However, in 1937, works of Herbert Bayer's were included in the Nazi propaganda exhibition "Degenerate Art", upon which he left Germany.
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In 1944 Herbert Bayer married Joella Synara Haweis, the daughter of poet and Dada artist Mina Loy.
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Herbert Bayer made provisions to donate, after his death, a collection of his works which had been housed in ARCO's conference center in Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Herbert Bayer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.
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Herbert Bayer's works appear in prominent public and private collections including the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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Herbert Bayer designed the Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks, an environmental sculpture located in Kent, Washington.
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The facility, the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, is to have galleries, educational programs, and an overall aim to provide tools for the preservation and study of Bayer's work.
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Herbert Bayer was the architect for the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, in Fort Worth, Texas.