room-606:This a is a close-up of Herbert Bayer’s poster for the landmark 1968 Bauhaus retrospective
room-606: This a is a close-up of Herbert Bayer’s poster for the landmark 1968 Bauhaus retrospective ‘50 Jahre Bauhaus’, which opened in Stuttgart in May 1968 before travelling to London, Amsterdam, Paris, Chicago, Toronto, and Pasadena. Bayer had attended the Weimar Bauhaus as a pupil from 1921 to 1923, at the time the economic crisis in post-WW1 Weimar was developing and reaching its dramatic peak. He initially took Johannes Itten’s revolutionary Preliminary Course on colour and form, then moved on to study mural painting with Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. It was at this time that he created the Universal alphabet; the lower-case only typography now synonymous with the Bauhaus and its powerful legacy. In 1923 he was also commissioned by the Thuringian State in Weimar to design the new high value banknotes. The impoverished Weimer Republic government was desperately producing emergency notes - increasingly dramatic denominations - in a desperate attempt to combat acute hyper-inflation. Bayer returned to the Bauhaus in 1925 - by then located at Dessau - as teacher, to lead a new course in advertising and typography. He remained a tutor there until 1928, the same year Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius departed. He emigated to the U.S.A in 1938 and established himself as a graphic designer in America. You can view the complete poster at my store, Room-606.co.uk. -- source link