Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer
Bauhaus Ausstellung, Weimar
1923
gouache on paper
(design for postcard announcement)
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Herbert Bayer
Designs for German Inflationary Money 
1923
gelatin silver print of mock-ups
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Herbert Bayer (designer)
Eine Milliarde Mark
banknote for one billion marks
1923
letterpress
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Herbert Bayer
Dessau
1926
offset-lithograph
(cover of booklet for tourists)
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Herbert Bayer
Detmold
ca. 1930
offset-lithograph
(cover of booklet for tourists)
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Herbert Bayer
Katalog Wohnbedarf
1932
offset-lithograph
(cover of home-furnishings catalog)
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Herbert Bayer
Sporting Stepper
1937
offset-lithograph
(advertising proof for German clothier)
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Herbert Bayer
Montage of Ham and Warplanes
ca. 1942
offset-lithograph
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Herbert Bayer
Electronics - a New Science for a New World
1942
offset-lithograph
(booklet cover for General Electric Corporation)
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Herbert Bayer
Fun Chair - Fun Table - Funiture Company
1951
offset-lithograph
(advertising mock-up)
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Herbert Bayer
Christmas Card
1954
offset-lithograph
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Herbert Bayer
Art Directors Club of Chicago
ca. 1959
offset-lithograph
(cocktail ticket)
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Herbert Bayer
Packaging Review
1961
offset-lithograph
(cover of magazine)
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Herbert Bayer
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
1961
offset-lithograph
(logo design)
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Herbert Bayer
Ex Libris - In Memory of David Mayer Aspen Jr.
1962
offset-lithograph
(bookplate)
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Herbert Bayer
Mont Tremblant - Canada
ca. 1963
offset-lithograph
(logo design)
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from Pharsalia

 

    See Fortune! where thy Pompey lyes! And, oh!

In Pity, one, last, little boon bestow.

He asks no Heaps of Frankincense to rise,

No Eastern Odours to perfume the Skies;

No Roman Necks his Patriot Coarse to bear,

No rev'rend Train of Statues to appear;

No Pageant Shows his Glories to record,

And tell the Triumphs of his conqu'ring Sword;

No Instruments in plaintive Notes to sound,

No Legions sad to march in solemn Round;

A Bier, no better than the Vulgar need,

A little Wood the kindling Flame to feed,

With some poor Hand to tend the homely Fire,

Is all, these wretched Relicks now require. 

– Lucan (AD 39-65), translated by Nicholas Rowe (1718)