Herbert Bayer, Graphic Designer - From the Bauhaus to Berlin, 1921-1938

Herbert Bayer was one of the most extraordinary artists associated with the Bauhaus school. A true multimedia artist, he united graphic design, art, and architecture in a unique style that came to represent the bold aesthetic approach of the movement. A teacher with the school until 1928, Bayer went on to become a highly successful graphic designer in Germany, and later one of the most prominent figures in the 20th-century art scene of the United States.This broad biographical account, which presents previously unseen archival photographs and episodes from the life of Bayer and other influential Bauhaus artists such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, follows Bayer through the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and finally to his exile in the United States. Specifically, Patrick Rossler reveals for the first time Bayer''s unique experience of 1930s Germany, where, with his commercial and artistic life shattered by terror and censorship, he distracted himself with leading a hedonistic life. Shining a light on Bayer''s time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, and his route out of the Nazi state, Rossler provides rich new insights into how Bauhaus artists navigated a protracted period of social upheaval and dictatorship, where commercial success was fraught with a deep hostility towards the regime and the temptations of emigration.Revealing the tensions of an avant-garde artist struggling to practice during a period of repression, H ert Bayer, Graphic Designer speaks to both the memory of those who left Nazi Germany, but also the perseverance of artists and intellectuals throughout history who have worked under authoritarian regimes. Drawing on never before interpreted documents, letters and archival material, Rossler tells Bayer''s compelling story - documenting the life of a unique artist and offering a valuable contribution to research in emigre experiences.>

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Rössler, Patrick Rssler
• Assisted by: Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Editor), Thomas O Haakenson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.11.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781350229716
• ISBN: 978-1-350-22971-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 306 mm x 242 mm
• Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Graphic Design, Theory of art, Germany, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, ART / European, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / American / General, The arts, History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus