Red Transparency (c. 1970)

Lithograph on paper, signed and numbered: “74/75”.

Bayer had a 60-year career that included abstract and surrealist painting, sculpture, environmental art, industrial design, architecture, graphic design, lithography, photography and tapestry. In addition to pursuing his own creative artistic talents, Bayer held administrative positions related to his design abilities. In Germany, he was a Director of the Bauhaus, Art Director of Vogue magazine, and Director of Dorland Studio in Berlin from 1928 to 1938. In America, Bayer was a consultant for the town of Aspen, Colorado.

Bayer began his professional career in Germany as an architect. He expanded his pursuits into painting and design and did wall paintings with Vassily Kandinsky in 1921 and was a teacher of advertising layout and topography at the Weimer Bauhaus. In 1938, as World War II was beginning in Europe, he emigrated to the United States, first living in New York, and in 1946, settling for the remainder of his life in Aspen, Colorado where he became an influential cultural force.

Memberships included the American Abstract Artists, and exhibition venues were in Germany and in the United States including the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC and Marlborough Gallery in New York City.

Bayer is listed in:
several monographs exclusively about the artist
Falk, Peter Hastings (ed). Who Was Who in American Art. Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1999.

Sheet size: 29.5” x 29.5”
Frame size: 32.25” x 32.25”