7.04.2012

herbert bayer: man crush and other stuff

I love me some some Herbert Bayer.
Everyone knows his seminal
Bauhaus graphic and photo work,
and as great as that material is,
I decided to try to show you some more obscure stuff.
I could have gone on and on,
but these were some of my favorites....

There's Herbie in 1960.
He would have been 60.
He died in 1985.

Herbert Bayer
Kiosk for selling cigarettes
1924

Herbert Bayer
Exhibition pavilion for selling toothpaste (?)
1924

Herbert Bayer
Open streetcar station with newsstand
1924

Herbert Bayer
Advertising sign for electric industry
1924

Herbert Bayer
Ideas about the "extended field of vision"
1935
I blogged about this before....
Herbert Bayer
Another ideas about the "extended field of vision"
1935
Very Residents. 

Herbert Bayer
I believe these were from the exhibition
"Das Wunder Des Lebens"
Berlin
1934

Herbert Bayer
Office for an Art Director
New York
1943
I love how it looks, and would probable feel like, a pool.

Herbert Bayer
Drawing for an entrance to the exhibition
"Modern Art in Advertising:
Designs for the Container Corporation"
Art Institute of Chicago
1945

Herbert Bayer
Drawing for a marble garden at the
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
1955
Very Sottsass circa 1980.

Herbert Bayer
Monument to Walter Paepcke
Aspen Grove Cemetery
1962

Herbert Bayer
Kaleidoscreen
Aluminum Company of America
1957

Herbert Bayer
Bird Houses
1953

Herbert Bayer
"Perforated Space Divider Screen Models"
1958

Herbert Bayer
"Structure and Moon on Green"
Oil on canvas
1962-67

Herbert Bayer
"Lonely Metropolitan"
Photomontage
1932
Appropriate for me lately....

Herbert Bayer
1967
Gosh is he cute. 
He reminds me a bit of another
crazy Austrian artist I know....
Crazy Austrian Artist

Last sentence on the back flap.
Thanks Herbie!

All images from:
"Herbert Bayer: Visual Communication,
Architecture, Painting"
Reinhold
1967

4 comments:

  1. *ordered*

    Huge thanks to you! I deeply appreciate your blog.

    PS: Last sentence is sweet.

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  2. Seva- Thanks! You will LOVE the book! Best, Patrick

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  3. Hooray for cross-generational awesomeness! I love it.
    Sorry the lonely metropolitan c'est toi--gorgeous collage though, quite Kafka-esque somehow!
    -Joanna

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  4. oh yes - clemens kois sure is very crazy..;-) but very good , too..

    the new auboeck book
    clemens kois is a young photographer from salzburg / austria also living and working in new york city.
    he started collecting vintage auboeck pieces only some years ago and while picking up speed and quite respectable pieces doing so he had the idea of making a book about his special view on the body of work.
    his eye makes the difference. it combines his fellow salzburgian mozart's humor with the viennese carl auboeck's style and quality - the book is therefore not only highly entertaining but roots deep in the educating business.. kois maybe was not even intending this effect but for me every of the great close up images will be a witness of a time not so long ago when all of these shown details and combinations of different materials still were just simple state of the handcraft - today the masters of leather , brass, cane and horn.. are still alive or just starting up and wait to be asked for their contribution.
    today our workshop still struggles and strives to follow, sometimes even outdo the high principles in quality set by the last generations in the workshop and we are very happy to say that we are confirmed and often flattered by the very positive acknowledgements from our highly esteemed customers ..
    carl auboeck IV
    http://www.amazon.de/Carl-Aubock-The-Workshop/dp/1576876152
    coming up in september 2012 !

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