Herbert Bayer

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Herbert Bayer

Austrian-American artist

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Born:: April 5, 1900, Haag, Austria

Died:: Sept. 30, 1985, Montecito, Calif., U.S. (aged 85)

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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 typography and advertising at the Bauhaus and simultaneously was an art director with Vogue, an American fashion magazine. In 1928 he moved to Berlin, where ...(100 of 226 words)

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