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Herbert Bayer Mauerbild (gelb) , 1936 Oil on canvas, 24 × 31½ in. Jan and Ronnie Greenberg Collection
An influential student and teacher at the Bauhaus, artistic polymath Herbert Bayer worked across painting, sculpture, photography, typography, and design. Following his immigration to the United States, he arrived in Aspen in 1946 and lived there for almost thirty years. Arguably his most important legacy is the campus of the Aspen Institute, conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art. In this painting, Bayer uses detailed shadowing and trompe l’oeil to create perspective and depth. —HJ
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