Oral history interview with Herbert Bayer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Bowman, Ruth, 1923-
label: Names
content: Bauhaus
label: Names
content: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Architects -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Bowman, Ruth, 1923-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was a painter, sculptor, and architect from Montecito, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 October 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bayer81
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 October 3, by Ruth Bowman, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bayer speaks of his early family life in Austria, his first exposure to art, his education at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, the atmosphere and work of the early Bauhaus, leaving the Bauhaus and becoming the art director of the German edition of "Vogue," meeting Moholy-Nagy in New York, and working on exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.