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Self-Portrait
Herbert Bayer American, born Austria
Not on view
This nontraditional self-portrait was made by the Austrian-born modernist Herbert Bayer, who was known for his dynamic integration of drawing, painting, typography, photography, graphic design, and architecture. A professor at the Bauhaus in Germany from 1921 to 1928, Bayer emigrated to the United States in August 1938 after Hitler included one of his paintings in the infamous 1937 Degenerate Art show in Munich. He chose this photograph of his own hand holding a drafting pencil for the cover of his last (and largest) monograph—a 1984 volume that celebrates the artist’s multimedia expertise.
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