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Herbert Bayer

♂  American, born Austria. 1900–1985

Herbert worked at MoMA from about 1938 to 1943 as Designer and Installer . He has been in 28 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1936 and 1988.

32 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

Installer
Photo of the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928

7 December 1938 to 30 January 1939

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, George Grosz and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928

7 December 1938 to 30 January 1939

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, George Grosz and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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A History of the Modern Poster

11–26 June 1941

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition Road to Victory

21 May to 4 October 1942

Edward Steichen, Herbert Bayer, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein, among others, were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition The Arts in Therapy

3 February to 7 March 1943

Victor D'Amico, Herbert Bayer, Edward Liss and Bernard Sanders were involved.

Designer
Photo of the exhibition Airways to Peace

2 July to 31 October 1943

Herbert Bayer, Monroe Wheeler, Eliot Elisofon and R. Buckminster Fuller, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Airways to Peace

2 July to 31 October 1943

Herbert Bayer, Monroe Wheeler, Eliot Elisofon and R. Buckminster Fuller, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Design for Use

24 May to 22 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Posters

24 May to 17 September 1944

Ben Shahn, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer and Monroe Wheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Polio Poster Competition

31 October to 20 November 1949

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Modern Styles

11 July to 5 September 1950

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Drawings U.S.A.

25 April to 5 August 1956

William S. Lieberman, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers and Ellsworth Kelly, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

21 December 1960 to 5 February 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Lettering by Hand

6 November 1962 to 6 January 1963

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

6 August to 29 September 1963

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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The Photographic Poster

7 September to 30 November 1964

El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Mildred Constantine and Herbert Matter, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Greetings!

1 March to 8 May 1966

Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

26 June to 22 November 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967

25 January to 10 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photo Eye of the 20s

4 June to 8 September 1970

Max Ernst, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photography for Collectors

16 March to 20 June 1976

John Szarkowski, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Posters from the Collection

26 March to 19 May 1976

Arthur Drexler, Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Graphic Revolution: 1915–1935

5 August to 31 October 1977

Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Pavel Tchelitchew and Kurt Schwitters, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works

31 October 1977 to 29 January 1978

John Szarkowski and Herbert Bayer were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors

22 July to 15 September 1981

László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Poster

6 June to 6 September 1988

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Pierre Bonnard and Oskar Kokoschka, among others, were involved.