Jun 28 2009
Herbert Bayer Exhibition at David Floria Gallery
David Floria Gallery is proud to announce the opening of its first exhibition of paintings, sculptures and prints by the internationally known Austrian born artist Herbert Bayer, (1900-1985). The exhibition consists of 20 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints that range from 1923 to 1980. The three sculptures in the exhibition are recent posthumus fabrications from original lifetime maquettes.
Herbert Bayer was born in Linz, Austria, in 1900. He apprenticed to a local architect at the age of 19 before being accepted into the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921. There he studied with modern masters including Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Bayer emigrated to the United States in 1938, settling first in New York. He then moved to Aspen, Colorado, in 1946 after being hired by Walter Paepke, of the Container Corporation of America, to be the Artist in Residence at the new Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. While at the Aspen Institute,, Bayer designed new buildings, earthworks and graphics. He also pursued his own work in painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Herbert Bayer was well known for his design of an all lower case type face and his influential Surrealist photography and painting, but less so for his prolific body of geometric abstract paintings, sculpture and prints. He exemplified the Bauhaus ideal of being a master of all the visual arts, both applied and fine, drawing no hierarchical distinctions between them. Bayer’s works are represented in numerous important public collections in Europe and the United States. The Herbert Bayer Archive is housed at the Denver Art Museum. There is a major retrospective currently on view at the Lintos Museum in Linz, Austria.
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