Bayer, Herbert. Christie's Photographs Auction, October 4, 1999. Twenty Years: Celebrating Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich.

Beautifully reproduced collection of 56 outstanding images, most one to a page, with special portfolio on Herbert Bayer, with images from his retrospective exhibit. Also Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Paul Outerbridge, Man Ray, Paul Strand, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Frantisek Drtikol, Pierre Debruil, Alfred Stieglitz, Heinrich Kuhn, Johann Hagemeyer, Berenice Abbott, Alma Lavenson, and others. Price estimates up to $300,000 per photo. Fine condition.

Note: April 5, 1900, was the birthday in Haag, Austria, of Herbert Bayer, graphic and typeface designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect.  Bayer studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany,  and then became its director of printing and advertising, before taking a position as art director for Vogue in Berlin. Most of his photographs, including photomontages, were made from 1928 to 1938. In 1937, after his work was included in the Nazi propaganda exhibition Degenerate Art, he left Germany but risked returning in 1938 when he gathered materials for a Bauhaus exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, after which he stayed in the U.S.  He and Edward Steichen then worked together on MoMA’s 1942 thematic exhibit, Power in the Pacific.  It was the precursor to Road to Victory (1944), designed by Bayer and which influenced Steichen’s The Family of Man (1955).  Bayer later was in charge of art acquisitions for ARCO, building what became a 30,000 piece collection that was auctioned off after ARCO was acquired by BP in 2000.  In 2019, Lynda and Stewart Resnick donated $10 million to the Aspen Institute to create the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies. Bayer, who also was an architect in Aspen, died in 1985 in Montecito, California.