Background
Herbert Bayer was born on April 5, 1900 in Haag, Niederosterreich, Austria.
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B&w reproductions of Bayer's work as artist, architect, exhibition and industrial designer. The artwork is accompanied by a short text explaining Bayer's methods and research in visual design.
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Herbert Bayer's 1925 experimental universal typeface combined upper and lowercase characters into a single character set.
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Herbert Bayer was born on April 5, 1900 in Haag, Niederosterreich, Austria.
Herbert Bayer served his apprenticeship in architecture in 1919 with G. Schmidt Hammer in Linz (Austria). In Germany he studied in Darmstadt with Emanuel Margold (1920) and in Weimar at the Bauhaus (1921-1923); he also studied mural painting with Vassily Kandinsky (1921).
Since 1965 Herbert Bayer has been employed as a consultant in architecture, art and design by Atlantic Richfield Company. Previously he was Chairman of the Department of Design of the Container Corporation of America (1956-1965) and consultant at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies (1949).
When he lived in Germany he was a master at the Bauhaus in Dessau, teaching typography (1925-1928), and an art director at the Dorland Studio in Berlin (1928-1938) and at Vogue in the same city (1929-1930).
In 1979 Herbert Bayer received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He was appointed Honorary Fellow of the Hochschule für Kunstlerische und Industrielle Gestalung of Linz, Austria (1978) and of the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague (1975), and was also selected as a member of the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame.
Herbert Bayer participated in the film Bayer, the Man and His Work, produced in 1975 by Atlantic Richfield Corporation. He also designed the "Beyond the Wall" mural and park at the Philadelphia College of Art (1977), the "Organ Fountain" in Linz (1977), the "Double Ascension" sculpture at the Arco Plaza in Los Angeles (1973), and the "Articulated Wall," a highway sculpture for the 1968 Olympics.
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1967Bayer is a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Abstract Artists, the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
In 1944 Bayer married Joella Syrara Haweis, the daughter of poet and Dada artist Mina Loy.
