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herbert bayer was intimately involved in the bauhaus in the 1920s and 30s: first as a student, and then as one of its
directors. emigrating to the united states in 1938, bayer enthusiastically practiced bauhaus principles for over 60 years.
creating pioneering works in painting, sculpture, environmental works, industrial design, typography, architecture,
photography, and applied design, bayer was one of the few "total artists" of the twentieth century. he produced works
which expressed the needs of an industrial age as well as mirroring the advanced tendencies of the avant-garde.
bayer designed numerous exhibitions for the museum of modern art, including bauhaus: 1919-1928, road to victory
(directed by edward steichen), airways to peace and art in progress. relocating to aspen in 1946 with the
encouragement of walter paepcke, bayer became the design consultant for the development of aspen as a ski resort
and cultural center, and architect for the aspen institute of humanistic studies. he was also a consultant to the container
corporation of america where he conceived of great ideas of western man and world geo-graphic atlas. bayer
also completed the first recorded "earthwork" environment: entitled grass mound in 1955.
during his lifetime, bayer had over 150 one-man exhibitions and seven travelling museum retrospectives throughout the united
states and europe. in addition, there have been over 100 books, articles, essays, museum catalogues, and films dealing
exclusively with bayer's creative oeuvre. bayer's works are included in over 40 public collections including the whitney
museum, guggenheim museium, and the museum of modern art, new york, and numerous major museums throughout europe.
in addition, there are substantial archives of his work in the bauhaus archiv in berlin, the bayer archive at denver art
museum, as well as a fine collection of works at the busch-reisinger museum at cambridge.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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1929 |
Kunstlerbund Marz, Linz,
Austria. Galerie Povolozky, Paris. |
1931 |
Bauhaus, Dessau. |
1936 |
Kunstverein, Salzburg. |
1937 |
London Gallery, London. |
1939 |
Black Mountain College, Black
Mountain, North Carolina. P.M. Gallery , New York City. |
1940 |
Art Gallery, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut. |
1943 |
Willard Gallery, New York
City. North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas. |
1944 |
Outline Gallery,
Pittsburgh. |
1947-49 |
Retrospective: "The Way Beyond
Art." Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Design,
Chicago. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs,
Colorado. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska . Boise Art
Museum, Boise, Idaho: Boseman Museum, Boseman, Montana. Portland
Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
Washington. San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco. |
1952 |
Cleveland Institute of Art,
Cleveland. |
1953 |
Hanns Schaeffer Galleries, New
York City. |
1954 |
Kunstkabinett Klihm,
Munich. Galleria del Milione, Milan. |
1955 |
Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, Aspen. |
1956-57 |
Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer:
33 Jahres Seines Schaffens." Germanisches Nationalmuseum,
Nuremberg. Die Neue Sammlung, Munich Kunstgewerbemuseum,
Zurich Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Berlin. Stadtisches
Museum, Braunschweig. Kunst und Industrie Museum, Vienna. |
1957 |
Kunstkabinett Klihm,
Munich. |
1958 |
"Recent Works of Herbert
Bayer." Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas. Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma. |
1959 |
Kunstkabinett Klihm,
Munich. |
1960 |
Stadtische Kunsthalle,
Dusseldorf. Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. |
1961 |
Bauhaus-Archiv,
Darmstadt. |
1962-63 |
Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer.
Paintings, Architecture, Graphics." Stadtisches Kunstmuseum,
Duisberg. Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New
Mexico Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs,
Colorado. The Art Gallery, University of California at Santa
Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. La Jolla Museum of Art, La
Jolla, California. Joslyn Art museum, Omaha, Nebraska Memorial
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New
York Galleria del Levante, Milan. Kunstkabinett Klihm,
Munich. |
1963 |
Andrew Morris Gallery, New York
City. Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria. |
1964 |
Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, Aspen. |
1965 |
Byron Gallery, New York
City. Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles. Boise Art
Association, Boise, Idaho. |
1966 |
Scudder Gallery, University of
New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. |
1967 |
Galerie Klihm,
Munich. Galerie Conzen, Dusseldorf. Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Philadelphia. |
1968 |
Marlborough New London Gallery,
London. |
1969 |
The Art Gallery, University of
California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. "Two
Visions of Space" (joint exhibition with Ingeborg ten Haeff), the
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York. |
1970 |
Dunkelman Gallery,
Toronto. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Galerie
Conzen, Dusseldorf. |
1971 |
Marlborough Gallery, New
York. Centre Culturel Allemand, Paris. Goethe-Institute,
Paris. Die Neue Sammlung, Munich. Osterreichisches Museum fur
Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. |
1972 |
Marlborough Gallery,
Montreal. Galerias Mer-kup, Mexico City, D.F. |
1973 |
Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer.
Fotografien. Fotomontagen. 1926-1937." Landesbildstelle,
Hamburg. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld: Fotohistorisches Museum,
Leverkusen. Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken. Retrospective:
"Herbert Bayer. A Total Concept." The Denver Art Museum, Denver,
Colorado. |
1974 |
Marlborough Galerie,
Zurich. Galerie Klihm, Munich. Small Traveling Retrospective:
Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna Galerie im Taxis Palais,
Innsbruck Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz,
Austria. |
1974-75 |
Traveling Exhibition: "Herbert
Bayer. Lithographs and Screenprints. 1969-1973." Marlborough
Graphics, New York City. Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania. Malvina Miller Gallery, San Francisco. Van
Straaten Gallery, Chicago Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach,
Florida. Collaborative Gallery, Los Angeles. Desmond Muirhead
Galleries, Newport Beach, California. Michael Berger Gallery,
Pittsburgh. |
1974-78 |
Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer.
Das Druckgrafische Werk bis 1971." Haus Deutscher Ring,
Hamburg. Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte,
Munster. Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden. Bauhaus-Archiv,
Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich. Museum Bochum, Bochum,
Germany Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Offenbach, Germany. Museo
Nacional de Machado do Castro, Coimbra, Portugal. Museo Nacional
de Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal. Museo Espanol del Arte
Contemporaneo, Madrid Museo del Arte Moderno, Barcelona. |
1975 |
Marlborough Gallery,
Toronto. Art Contacto Galleria, Caracas, Venzuela. |
1976 |
Retrospective:"Herbert Bayer.
Beispiele aus dem Gesamtwerk 1919-1974." Die Neue Galerie, Linz,
Austria. Marlborough Gallery, New York City. |
1977 |
Retrospective: Santa Barbara
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California. Marian Locks Gallery,
Philadelphia. |
1977-78 |
Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer:
From Type to Landscape" (traveling exhibition sponsored by the
American Federation of Arts). Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, New Hampshire. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa
Barbara, California. The Art Gallery, State University of New
York. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athen,
Georgia. Retrospective: "Herbert Bayer: Photogaraphic Works"
(traveling exhibition organized by ARCO Center for Visual Art.) ARCO
Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles. Museum of Modern Art, New
York City. Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, California. Portland
Art Museum, Porland, Oregon. South Dakota Memorial Art Center,
Brookings, South Dakota. Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio,
Texas. University of Art Gallery, Arlington,Texas. University
of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa. Center for Creative
Photography , University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Center for
the Arts, Simon Fraser university, Burnaby, British Columbia. San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Davidson Art
Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Baltimore
Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. |
1978 |
Galerie Klihm,
Munich. Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany. |
1979 |
Marlborough Gallery, New York
. Galerie Breiting, Berlin. |
1980 |
Inaugural Exhibition of the
Herbert Bayer Archive. Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. Die
Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria. Inaugural exhibition of the Herbert
Bayer Collection. The Breakers Seminar Building, Atlantic
Richfield Company, Santa Barbara, California. |
1981 |
Aspen Center for the Visual
Arts, Aspen. Galerias Mer-kup, Mexico City, D.F. Ruth Schaffner
Gallery, Santa Barbara, California. "Herbert Bayer: A Selected
Survey. Paintings. Sculpture. Photographs." Grapestake Gallery, San
Francisco. |
1982 |
Marlborough Gallery, New York
City "The Photography of Herbert Bayer." The Keystone Gallery,
Santa Barbara, California. "Herbert Bayer. Sixty Years of
Paintings." Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. "Herbert Bayer.
Photographic Works." Galleria, The Arizona Bank, Phoenix, Arizona.
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1983 |
Galerie Thomas,
Munich. Saidenberg Gallery, New York. Janus Gallery, Los
Angeles. |
1995 |
"Bauhaus and Beyond." Kent
Gallery, New York |
1997 |
"The Aspen Years." Kent
Gallery, New York
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1999 |
herbert bayer: the total
artist. Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas,
Nevada
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bauhaus- Archiv, Berlin. Staatliche
Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie,
Berlin. Schubladen Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Museum Bochum,
Bochum, Germany. Busch-Risinger Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Museum Ludwig, Cologne,
Germany. Wallraf-Rachartz Museum, Cologne, Germany. Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bayer
Archive, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. Stadtische
Sammlungen Duisberg-Rheinhausenn, Duisberg,
Germany. Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt, Duisberg,
Germany. Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany. Evansville Museum of
Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana. Fort Worth Art Center,
Fort Worth, Texas. Kunsthalle, Hamburg,
Germany. Landesgalerie, Hannover,
Germany. Staatsgemaldesammlung, Museum, Kassel,
Germany. Stadtisches Museum Leverkunsen, Leverkusen,
Germany. Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. Museum of
Modern Art, Mexico City, D.F. Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung,
Munich, Germany. Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte,
Munster, Germany. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Museum of
Modern Art, New York City. Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York City. Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg,
Germany. Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. Museum of
Modern Art, Rome. Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New
Mexico. Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany. San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, California. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart,
Germany. Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Museum
Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New
York. Bayer Photographic Archive, Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon.
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