Museum of Modern Art Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer

This bulletin is an 8 page booklet that went along with the Museum of Modern Art’s Exhibition in 1938 titled “Bauhaus 1919-1928 which was the period during which Martin Gropius oversaw the Bauhaus. The catalog for the exhibition was an important record of the Bauhaus and remains available in a new edition today. (Click on image for a larger view on Flickr).

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I got this copy in 2005 and did not think much until 2009 when the Museum of Modern Art staged its first Bauhaus exhibition since 1938. According to a post on Modernism101.com, which had this for sale at some point:

“Issued to accompany the now legendary Bauhaus exhibition of 1938/39 – the first major Bauhaus exhibition to be held in the United States. As with the exhibition, the bulletin was designed throughout by Bayer with photographs by Sunami, Newhall, and Bayer himself. There is even a snapshot of Frank Lloyd Wright hobnobbing with Walter and Ise Gropius!”

Bayer attended the Bauhaus in Weimer from 1921 to 1923 and then returned from  1925 to 1928. While at the Bauhaus Bayer created a sans serif typefaces that employed all lowercase characters which is now called “Bayer Universal” font.

Most English online biographies jump from the Bauhaus  to Bayer’s work in the United States but skip work Bayer created while remaining in Germany far longer than many of his colleagues for the journal Neue Linie that remain wonderful examples. See this wikipedia link in German.

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View One (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View One (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Two (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Two (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Three (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Three (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Four (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Four (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Five (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Five (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Six (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Six (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Seven (Click for a larger image on Flickr)

MoMA Bauhaus Exhibition Bulletin by Herbert Bayer, 1938 View Seven (Click for a larger image on Flickr). Yes that is Frank Lloyd Wright chatting with Walter and Ise Gropius on the bottom right

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