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sculpture, works on paper (including drawings, watercolors and signed original lithographs, etchings and serigraphs) and signed photographs to tribal and ethnic art from many cultures, as well as historic prints and artifacts, all displayed throughout ARCO's buildings in Los Angeles and several other cities. Three years after ARCO was taken over by
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for a center dedicated to Bayer that will be located on the Institute's Aspen Meadows campus, which Bayer designed. The facility, the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, is to have galleries, educational programs, and an overall aim to provide tools for the preservation and study of Bayer's
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Under Bayer's direction, ARCO's art collection grew to nearly 30,000 works nationwide, managed by Atlantic Richfield Company Art Collection staff. ARCO's collection was eclectic, and consisted of an extremely wide range of media & styles; ranging from contemporary and earlier paintings,
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Bayer made provisions to donate, after his death, a collection of his works which had been housed in ARCO's conference center in Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The works have been loaned previously to the
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soon held the unique distinction of possessing the world's largest corporate art collection, under the critical eye and sharp direction of Bayer as ARCO's Art and Design Consultant.
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in 2002. The building, owned by the City of Fort Worth, is now the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, which features seven galleries highlighting regional and national artists.
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Chromatic Gate sculpture (1991) by Herbert Bayer, installed at ARCO Circle at the corner of Cabrillo Boulevard and Puerto Vallarta in Santa Barbara, California.
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in 2000, that company's then-chairman, Lord Brown, personally ordered ARCO's art collection liquidated. It was sold through Christie's and LA Modern Auctions.
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at the first large Bauhaus exhibit in Weimar. They married in 1925, separated in 1928, had a daughter, Julia Alexandra, in 1929, and divorced in 1944.
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who experimented with the creation of a simplified more phonetic-based alphabet. From 1925 to 1930, Bayer designed a geometric sans-serif titled
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While living in Aspen, Bayer had a chance meeting with the eccentric oilman, outdoorsman and visionary ecologist,
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as Paepcke promoted skiing as a popular sport. Bayer's architectural work in the town included co-designing the
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office. He remained in Germany far later than most other progressives. In 1936 he designed a brochure for the
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In the spirit of reductive minimalism, Bayer developed a crisp visual style and adopted use of all-lowercase,
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for most Bauhaus publications. Bayer is one of several typographers of the period including
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Bayer's works appear in prominent public and private collections including the
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Works includes: German banknotes; die Neue linie magazine; Universal typeface.
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Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989
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In 1944 Bayer married Joella Synara Haweis, the daughter of poet and
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From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America
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combined upper and lowercase characters into a single character set.
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In 1946 the Bayers relocated. Hired by industrialist and visionary
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Inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Art Directors Club (1975)
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Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
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Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidthammer in
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and it still stands between the twin skyscrapers today.
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Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson.
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Art Directors Club bio and portrait of Herbert Bayer
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Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States
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Index

Haag
Austria-Hungary
Montecito
Austrian
American
Weimar Bauhaus
Irene Bayer-Hecht
graphic designer
architect
Atlantic Richfield Company

universal typeface
Linz
Darmstadt Artists' Colony
Walter Gropius
Bauhaus manifesto
Bauhaus
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
László Moholy-Nagy
printing
advertising
sans serif
typefaces
Kurt Schwitters
Jan Tschichold
Herbert Bayer, universal
P22 Type Foundry Bauhaus Set
Architype Bayer
Architype Schwitters

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