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Lot Essay
Bayer, like most of the Bauhaus artists, worked in a variety of fields. Painter, sculptor, designer (see fig.1), architect and photographer, he is most famous for his surrealist photomontage and innovative adverts.
He studied architecture in Linz and mural painting under Kandinsky at the Bauhaus at Weimar, before becoming a teacher himself at the Bauhaus in the typography department. From 1928 to 1937, he ran an advertising business in Berlin before emigrating to New York in 1938. He returned to Cologne in 1946 where he worked mainly as an architect. He designed several exhibitions devoted to Bauhaus, among them the largest exhibition ever held, entitled 50 Years Bauhaus which toured several cities Europe.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the artist in a letter dated october 18,1976. This work is numbered 1924/88 in the artist's inventory.
He studied architecture in Linz and mural painting under Kandinsky at the Bauhaus at Weimar, before becoming a teacher himself at the Bauhaus in the typography department. From 1928 to 1937, he ran an advertising business in Berlin before emigrating to New York in 1938. He returned to Cologne in 1946 where he worked mainly as an architect. He designed several exhibitions devoted to Bauhaus, among them the largest exhibition ever held, entitled 50 Years Bauhaus which toured several cities Europe.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the artist in a letter dated october 18,1976. This work is numbered 1924/88 in the artist's inventory.