An engaging biography of Bauhaus master and leading graphic designer Herbert Bayer, covering his time in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, as well as his escape to the USA.
An engaging biography of Bauhaus master and leading graphic designer Herbert Bayer, covering his time in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, as well as his escape to the USA.
Patrick Rössler is Professor of Empirical Communication Research and Methods at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of The Bauhaus and Public Relations (2014), and with Elizabeth Otto, he co-edited Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School (2019). He was recipient of the Justus Bier Prize for German curators of 20th and 21st-century art for the exhibition "Bauhaus and National Socialism" (Weimar 2024).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations A Short Bayer Timeline Introduction: Herbert Bayer's Lost Decade Part One: Formative Experiences - How an Apprentice from Linz Became a Junior Master at the Bauhaus 1. Youth: Family, Friends, and Companions 2. Irene Hecht and Herbert Bayer: A Fateful Relationship 3. Intimate Friendships: Bayer's Work and Life at the Bauhaus 4. Sturm und Drang: Life in Berlin 5. Ise Gropius and the Summer of 1932 Part Two: A Commercial Artist in Nazi Germany 6. Working for Dorland Advertising Agency in Berlin 7. Designs for Propaganda 8. Good Life in Berlin 9. Loyal Bauhaus Circles Part Three: The Path to Emigration 10. The Last Person Left Behind in Berlin 11. Trial Run: The London Gallery Exhibition 12. Dress Rehearsal: Summer Excursion to the United States 13. A Well-Considered Departure Part Four: A New Life: Bayer in the Land of Opportunity 14. Bayer's New Start in the US: The Bauhaus at MoMA 15. Difficult Beginnings: Bayer's First Eight Years in the US Epilogue: Bayer in Berlin, or: A Life in an Echo Chamber Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations A Short Bayer Timeline Introduction: Herbert Bayer's Lost Decade Part One: Formative Experiences - How an Apprentice from Linz Became a Junior Master at the Bauhaus 1. Youth: Family, Friends, and Companions 2. Irene Hecht and Herbert Bayer: A Fateful Relationship 3. Intimate Friendships: Bayer's Work and Life at the Bauhaus 4. Sturm und Drang: Life in Berlin 5. Ise Gropius and the Summer of 1932 Part Two: A Commercial Artist in Nazi Germany 6. Working for Dorland Advertising Agency in Berlin 7. Designs for Propaganda 8. Good Life in Berlin 9. Loyal Bauhaus Circles Part Three: The Path to Emigration 10. The Last Person Left Behind in Berlin 11. Trial Run: The London Gallery Exhibition 12. Dress Rehearsal: Summer Excursion to the United States 13. A Well-Considered Departure Part Four: A New Life: Bayer in the Land of Opportunity 14. Bayer's New Start in the US: The Bauhaus at MoMA 15. Difficult Beginnings: Bayer's First Eight Years in the US Epilogue: Bayer in Berlin, or: A Life in an Echo Chamber Notes Bibliography Index
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