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Booklet Page, Page from "Bayer Type"

This is a Booklet page. It was designed by Herbert Bayer and printed by Berthold Type Foundry. It is dated 1933 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is offset lithograph on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors.

Its dimensions are

20.5 × 20.5 cm (8 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, center right: Bisherige nichtkonstruktive a-Formen; lower right: Beispiel des konstruktiven Form- / aufbaues eines a der bayer-Type; Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left: BOOKLET BAYER TYPE – 1933; upper right: Bayer 45

Cite this object as

Booklet Page, Page from "Bayer Type"; Designed by Herbert Bayer (American, b. Austria, active Germany and USA, 1900–1985); Printed by Berthold Type Foundry; offset lithograph on white paper; 20.5 × 20.5 cm (8 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors; 2016-54-69

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.

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