Oral history interview with Herbert Bayer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 44 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cohen, Arthur A. (Arthur Allen), 1928-1986
label: Names
content: Bauhaus
label: Names
content: Breuer, Marcel, 1902-
label: Names
content: Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
label: Names
content: Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Color in art
label: Topic
content: Surrealism
label: Topic
content: Architects -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cohen, Arthur A. (Arthur Allen), 1928-1986
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of Montecito, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 105 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 November 3-1982 March 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bayer81nov
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Herbert Bayer conducted 1981 November 3-1982 March 10, by Arthur Cohen, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bayer speaks of his family background and early influences in art and painting, his education and experiences at the Bauhaus school, studies under Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and his friendship with Marcel Breuer. Bayer also tells of fleeing from Nazi Germany and of his travels in Italy. He concludes the interview with a discussion of his theories of color, the relation of surrealism to his work, the influence of architecture upon his work, the beginning of his interest in sculpture, the relationship of landscape to culture, mathematics and its relationship to painting, and the role of metaphysics in his life.