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Herbert Bayer in his studio, 1969
Herbert Bayer in his studio, 1969

Herbert Bayer

Austrian-American artist
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Herbert Bayer (born April 5, 1900, Haag, Austria—died Sept. 30, 1985, Montecito, Calif., U.S.) was an Austrian-American graphic artist, painter, and architect, influential in spreading European principles of advertising in the United States. Bayer was first trained as an architect, but from 1921 to 1923 he studied typography and mural painting at the Bauhaus, then Germany’s most advanced school of design. After spending a year (1923) as a house painter, he became a master of...

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