poster 60th birthday of kandinsky
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Herbert Bayer designed the poster for the Kandinsky exhibition in Dessau in 1926. The combination of text with photography and red bars, the slightly tilted arrangement: typical graphic elements of the 1920s are skilfully staged here. The photo used is by the portrait photographer Hugo Erfurth.
In 1925, Bayer began taking photographs. At the same time, he began to incorporate photographs into graphic design. At first, the photos were treated like a geometric surface - as in this poster or the "catalogue of patterns" of the Bauhaus. Later, Bayer perfected this into a combination of typography, symbols (such as dots or arrows), drawing, photography and photomontage.
The poster was probably printed on salmon-colored paper in 1926. An original copy owned by Herbert Bayer, with now heavily faded colors, is located in the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.
In 1968, on the occasion of the large Bauhaus exhibition, Herbert Bayer had a reprint of the poster made. The font was re-set and it was printed on bright yellow paper.
Since the paper colour of the original print from 1926 can no longer be determined with certainty, we have added the old typography with the yellow background of the 1968 reprint to the poster.
