Herbert Bayer

HerbertBayer

Two Sinking Spheres, 1971.

Biography

01.

Herber Bayer

Artistic polymath Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents, advocating the integration of all arts throughout his career.

02.

Works& influence

"Conceived as an artist's utopia, the Bauhaus developed from a “blend of profound depression resulting from the lost war with its breakdown of intellectual and economic life, and the ardent hope and desire to build up to something new from these ruins."

• education and teaching
• the Bauhaus
• design fundamentals
• exhibits & preservation

Herbert Bayer, The Bauhaus Legacy, Kent Gallery, New York, 2003.

03. Humanly Impossible, Herbert Bayer, 1932

“[A]rt of the future...would go...out into the street, to the people, into the environment.” Herbert Bayer

04.

Typography

Single-alphabet- geometric sans-serif - lowercase letters - simple shapes - inspired by the school ideals & avant-garde philosophy

Blackletters- hard to read - hard to reproduce - hard to print

05.1

Design

World Geographic Atlas, 1953

50 Jahre Bauhaus. 1968, Exhibition Poster

05.2

Paintings

Four Warped Squares, ca. 1975

“Tendre Tableau E" 1928

05.3

Photomontages

Fotomontagen : Lonely Metropolitan, 1932

The Lonely Metropolitan, 1932

Sources & vocab

06.

References

• https://encyclopedia.design/2023/05/28/herbert-bayer-the-bauhaus-legacy-hardcover/
• https://www.linearity.io/blog/bauhaus-movement/
• https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/files/content/upload/BayerCatlge_Final-2.pdf
• https://www.thefoundrytypes.com/fonts/architype-bayer/
• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/herbert-bayer-711
• https://www.moma.org/artists/399
• https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cx4Xra

Vocabulary

• Polymath : esprit/génie universel, personne avec un savoir très divers.
• Prominent : important, éminent, remarquable
• Weaving : tissage
• Letterpress : impression typographique
• Severed : coupé, sectionné
• Slice : tranche
• Easel : chevalet