Herbert Bayer

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Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrian-American person
Bauhaus teacher
graphic designer
human
painter
photographer
typographer
birthDate 1900-04-05
birthPlace Haag, Austria
countryOfCitizenship Austria
United States of America
deathDate 1985-09-30
designed Universal typeface
educatedAt Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Bauhaus
employer Bauhaus Dessau
familyName Bayer
fieldOfWork exhibition design
graphic design
industrial design
painting
photography
typography
genre photomontage
givenName Herbert
influenced 20th-century typography
modern graphic design
influencedBy László Moholy-Nagy
Walter Gropius
knownFor Bauhaus advertising and print design
integrated visual communication systems
pioneering modernist typography
sans-serif lowercase type design
movement Bauhaus
Modernism
name Herbert Bayer
notableWork Bauhaus exhibition designs
Universal typeface
“Lonely Metropolitan” photomontage
occupation art director
graphic designer
painter
photographer
teacher
placeOfDeath Santa Barbara, California, United States
positionHeld director of printing and advertising workshop at Bauhaus Dessau
style constructivism in design
geometric abstraction
taughtAt Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus Weimar


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