Herbert Bayer

1900 — 1985

Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographer (1900-1985)

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Works

Bayer fountain

Bayer fountain

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Articulated Wall 1968

Articulated Wall

Herbert Bayer
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Nocturne with an 'N'

Herbert Bayer Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1900c

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."--Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logigo-philosphicus, 1922. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1924

Landschaft im Tessin

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1936

Dunstlöcher 1936/11

Herbert Bayer Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
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1936

Dunstlöcher in Weiß

Herbert Bayer Neue Nationalgalerie
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1937

Tageszeiten. (Triptychon, linker Teil)

Herbert Bayer Bavarian State Painting Collections
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1937

Tageszeiten. (Triptychon, mittlerer Teil)

Herbert Bayer Bavarian State Painting Collections
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1937

Tageszeiten. (Triptychon, rechter Teil)

Herbert Bayer Bavarian State Painting Collections
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1942

Paperboard Packs a Mighty Wallop, from the Early Series

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1942

Waste Paper to Package, from the Early Series

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1944

Exfoliation

Herbert Bayer Harvard Art Museums
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1945

Blue Movement

Herbert Bayer San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1948

Convolutions in Gray

Herbert Bayer Seattle Art Museum
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1948

Mountain Lakes

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1949

Foliage

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1949

Transformations

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1950

Study for Verdure

Herbert Bayer Harvard Art Museums
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1950

Verdure

Herbert Bayer Harvard Art Museums
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1955

Heated Calm

Herbert Bayer Whitney Museum of American Art
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1957

We both consider the people as our children and love them with parental affection but you love them as infants whom you are afraid to trust withoutnurses and I as adults whom I freely leave to self-government.--Thomas Je

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1958

Acropolis

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1958

The Bridge

Herbert Bayer San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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1960

"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."--Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, II, 1840, lecture in London, May 8. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1960

Constellation

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1961

Image

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1964

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1966

"Reason Is Language, Logos."--Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1738). From the series Great Ideas.

Herbert Bayer Smithsonian American Art Museum
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1968

Double Ascension

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