Lonely Metropolitan
Artist/Culture
Herbert Bayer
(American, born Austria, 1900–1985)
Date1932, printed in 1969
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions34.3 x 26.9 cm (image), 35.3 x 28 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineCharlotte E.W. Buffington Fund
Terms
Object number1994.259
Label TextBetter known as a Bauhaus graphic designer, Herbert Bayer was heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement. Lonely Metropolitan is one of a series of photographs inspired by the artist’s dreams. Set in front of a Berlin apartment building, Bayer’s eyes emerge from hovering hands severed below the wrists. Expressing an imagined world as opposed to photography’s more traditional use of documenting the real world, Bayer was one of the first artists to explore photomontage in the 1930s.ProvenanceThe Annex Galleries, 604 College Ave, Santa Rosa, CAOn View
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