About Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He served as a design consultant to and then Chairman of the Department of Design at the Container Corporation of America. He helped design the campus of The Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado, where his seminal earthwork Grass Mound (1955) is located. He was also instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985. In 1923 Bayer met the photographer Irene Bayer-Hecht at the first large Bauhaus exhibit in Weimar. In 2019, the philanthropists and entrepreneurs Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated $10 million to the nonprofit Aspen Institute for a center dedicated to Bayer on the Institute's Aspen Meadows campus, in Aspen, Colorado, which Bayer designed.
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