Herbert Bayer Xiii Preface and Acknowledgments Xv Introduction

xi Foreword Herbert Bayer xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction

I Painting, Sculpture, Environments

1 Painting: 1919-1982 5 Until the Bauhaus: 1900-1921 7 The Bauhaus Years: 1921 -1S28 8 Walter Gropius and the Founding of the Bauhaus 11 Bayer at the Bauhaus: Painting and Other Projects 16 From Bauhaus to Berlin 32 Berlin Diversity: 1928-1935 35 The "Dunstlocher" Paintings: Soft Form Paintings (1935-1937) 41 Emigration and Despair: 1938-1942 55 "Mountains and Convolutions": After Vermont, 1944 66 Sicily and the Succeeding Years of Plenty 80 "Moon and Structures" 90 Moroccan Punctuation: Tangier (1963-1974) 97 From Monochrome to Polychrome: The Chromatic Paintings 105 The Progressions of Fibonacci 111 Chromatic Paintings and Celestial Bodies: 1964-1976 126 The "Anthology" Paintings: 1976 to the Present

2 Sculpture and Environments: 1937-1983 152 Gardens and Earthworks 166 Murals to Screens to Sculpture 180 Environmental Sculpture: Visionary Projects

Graphic Design, Photography, and Exhibition and Architectural Design

1 Graphic Design: 1918-1983 191 The Bauhaus Years: Elegance through Severity 215 Bayer's Alphabets: Simple Functionalism, Functional Simplicity 220 Beyond the Bauhaus: Berlin (1928-1938) 229 The American Experience: From Advertising to Corporation 238 Summation: Commercial Art or Fine Art? A Rhetoric of Confusion

Photography: 1925-1938 242 Photography and Design: 1923-1938 242 Straight Photographs: 1925-1934 264 The Dream Montages: 1931-1932 268 Sculptural Fotoplastiken: 1936

3 Exhibition Design and Architectural Design: 1928-1968 283 Exhibition Design 284 Exhibition Design: Sources and Experimentation 288 Section Allemande: Deutscher Werkbund and Display of German Products (1930) 295 Bauhaus: 1919-1938 and Exhibitions Beyond 314 Architectural Design: 1946-1965

III Selected Writings by Herbert Bayer

1 Personal Statements and Essays 333 goethe and the contemporary artist (1949) 334 credo (1962) 335 waiter paepcke: prose poem (1960) 337 about moholy-nagy (1965) 337 homage to gropius: prose poem (1961) 338 reason is language, logos (1966) 338 general statement (1967) 339 back to basics (1979) 2 Painting, Sculpture, Environments 341 murals at the bauhaus building in weimar (1923): a statement about the wall-painting workshop at the bauhaus (1978) 342 statement on "soft form" paintings (1970) 342 statement about "mountains and convolutions" paintings (1970) 342 on the mural painting verdure (1950) 343 on titling the mural painting verdure (1950) statement on chromatic paintings (1970) on vasarely's paintings (1970) in honor of albrecht durer: an interpretation of adjusting the vanishing point (1971) statement on "anthology" paintings (since 1976) (1978) sculptures with prefabricated elements (1972) statement about the gate (1972) statement on the kent mill creek park canyon earthworks (1982)

3 Graphic Design on the standardized letterhead (1926) on typography (1967) typography and design at the bauhaus (1971) design, designer, and industry (1951) 4 Photography from an optical diary (1928) the aerial tramway of marseilles (1929) a statement about photography (1935) an acceptance speech (1969) statement about fotomontages (1975) about the fotoplastik and the fotomontage (1977)

5 Exhibition Design

aspects of design of exhibitions and museums (1961)

Chronology

Appendixes Selected One-Man Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Architecture, Environments, Interior Design, and Sculptures: Selected Works 398 List of Exhibitions Designed 399 Selected Public Collections

407 Notes 413 Bibliography 418 Photo Credits 419 Index PPN: 028686411 Titel: Herbert Bayer : the complete work / Arthur A. Cohen. - Cambridge, Mass [u.a.] : MIT, 1984 ISBN: 0-262-02206-0 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund