Set of Hyperinflation banknotes designed in Weimar BAUHAUS by Herbert BAYER 1923

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Set of Hyperinflation banknotes designed in Weimar BAUHAUS by Herbert BAYER 1923:
$1061.95

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A set of hyperinflation banknotes designed inside the Bauhaus by Herbert Bayer in 1923
An extremely rare chance to acquire a note in each denomination and different colour run.ITEM DETAILS
The notes are in good circulated condition with some wear, yellowing and marking consistent with age and use but no damages or repairs. Each measures approx. 9.1 cm x 14.4 cm.CONTEXT
Herbert Bayer attended the Weimar Bauhaus as a pupil from 1921 to 1923, at the time the economic crisis in post-WW1 Weimar was developing and reaching its dramatic peak.
He initially took Johannes Itten\'s revolutionary Preliminary Course on colour and form, then moved on to study mural painting with Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer.
It was at this time that he created the Universal alphabet; the lower-case only typography now synonymous with the Bauhaus and its powerful legacy.
In 1923 he was also commissioned by the Thüringian State in Weimar to design the new high value banknotes. The impoverished Weimer Republic government was desperately producing emergency money - increasingly high single note denominations - in an attempt to combat acute hyper-inflation.
Bayer returned to the Bauhaus in 1925 - now located at Dessau - as teacher, to lead a new course in advertising and typography. He remained a tutor there until 1928, the same year Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius departed.LITERATURE
i). An illustration of the banknote can be found in the catalogue for the famous 50 Years of the Bauhaus exhibition, which was held at the Royal Academy in London in 1968, on page 118. At the time of writing I have a copy of the catalogue available in a separate listing.
ii). Hans M. Wingler (Ed), Herbert Bayer: Das künstlerische Werk 1918-1938, Bauhaus Archiv Berlin (1982), p.29.
iii). Wright, Modernist 20th Century, international design sale held in Chicago on 18th May 2003, lot number 111.
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