Herbert Bayer (1900 to 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect, a Bauhaus-trained figure who worked across nearly every design discipline. He served as a design consultant to, and then chairman of the design department at, the Container Corporation of America, and helped design the campus of the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado, where his 1955 earthwork Grass Mound stands; he also shaped the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.
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Death PlaceMontecito, California, U.S. 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Herbert Bayer
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September 30, 1985
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Austrian and American
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1985-09-30
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Haag, Austria-Hungary
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Montecito, California, U.S.
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He served as a design consultant to, and then chairman of the design department at, the Container Corporation of America, and helped design the campus of the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado, where his 1955 earthwork Grass Mound stands; he also shaped the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: László Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy article, Bauhaus collaborators sectionQuote, Associated With: László Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy article, Bauhaus collaborators section
worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer.
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