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Biography
5 April 1900 in Haag am Hausruck, Upper Austria
30 September 1985 in Santa Barbara, California
Childhood and youth in Upper Austria, grammar school in Linz.
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| 1919 |
apprentice with the architect G.Schmidthammer in Linz. |
| 1920 |
assistant of architect E.Margold in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| 1921 -1923 |
studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar with Itten and Kandinsky. |
| 1924 |
stay in Italy. |
| 1925-28 |
teacher and head of the workshop for "print and advertisement" at the Bauhaus in Dessau. |
| 1928 - 1938 |
works in Berlin as painter, photographer, graphic, exhibition and advertisement designer (e.g. as art director for the Vogue and manager of the advertising agency Dorland). |
| 1929 |
first solo exhibition at the artists' association MAERZ in Linz. |
| 1930 |
designs the exhibitions of the German "Werkbund" in Paris and |
| 1931 |
the "Baugewerkschaften" in Berlin together with Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. |
| 1938 |
emigration to New York. Bayer designs several exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. |
| 1939 |
lectureship at the Black Mountain College, North Carolina. |
| 1945 |
art director of Dorland International. |
| 1946 - 1975 |
he lives in Aspen, Colorado, works as architect and design consultant at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Container Corporation of America and Arco. |
| 1961 |
solo exhibition at the Bauhaus Archive Berlin and another in |
| 1963 |
at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. |
| 1968 |
design of the "Articulated Wall" for the Olympic Games in Mexico. Solo exhibition at the Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna. |
| 1973 |
he receives an honorary doctorate of the Technical University Graz. Design of the sculpture "Double Ascension" for the Arco Plaza in Los Angeles. |
| 1974/75 |
retrospective of Bayer's prints at the Bauhaus Archive Berlin. |
| 1975 |
move to Montecito, California. |
| 1976 |
exhibition at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. Design of a fountain sculpture in front of the Brucknerhaus concert hall in Linz. |
| 1977 / 78 |
U.S. touring exhibition of his photographic works. |
| 1980 |
founding exhibition of the Herbert Bayer Archive at the Denver Art Museum, Colorado. |
| 1982 and 1987 |
touring exhibitions of the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, |
| 1987 |
at the gallery of Upper Austria (Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie). |
| Spring 2000 |
the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, the Gallery of Upper Austria and Schloss Starhemberg in Haag present a comprehensive and varied view of Herbert Bayer's complete works.
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