ATTRIBUTED HERBERT BAYER* (Haag am Hausruck 1900 - 1985 Montecito)
Composition with trangles, 1934
mixed media/canvas, 23 x 26,5 cm
signed Bayer, dated 34

ESTIMATE € 800 - 1200
STARTING PRICE € 800

Herbert Bayer was a German-American painter, graphic artist and photographer. He studied in the Studio for Architecture and Decorative Arts under G. Schmidthammer in 1919 and at the M. May Art School in Linz in 1920; In 1920, he also worked as an assistant to E. Margold in Darmstadt. From 1921 to 1923, he studied wall painting and typography at the State Bauhaus in Weimar with W. Kandinsky. A study visit took him to Italy in 1923/24. From 1925 to 1928, Bayer worked as a teacher of typography and advertising at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he combined photography and typography to create a new type of advertising design. From 1928 to 1938 he worked as an advertising graphic artist, painter, photographer and exhibition architect in Berlin. From 1938 to 1946, Bayer was an exhibition specialist in New York. In 1946 he moved to Aspen, Colorado, as a design consultant for the Container Corporation of America. In 1975, he moved again, to Montecito, California. Bayer's painterly work is primarily determined by geometric shapes, which often contrast with organic structures.

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