Irene Bayer, Bauhäusler am Strand der Elbe bei Dessau (v.l.: Georg Muche, Hinnerk Scheper, Herbert Bayer, Unbekannt, Unbekannt, Marcel Breuer, László Moholy Nagy, Unbekannt, Xanti Schawinsky)

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Irene Bayer, Bauhäusler am Strand der Elbe bei Dessau (v.l.: Georg Muche, Hinnerk Scheper, Herbert Bayer, Unbekannt, Unbekannt, Marcel Breuer, László Moholy Nagy, Unbekannt, Xanti Schawinsky)

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Irene Bayer-Hecht

American Photographer · 1898–1991

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Chicago-born but raised in Hungary, Irene Bayer-Hecht studied commercial art in Berlin. After seeing the Bauhaus exhibition in 1923, she decided to concentrate on fine art. In 1925 she married Herbert Bayer and moved to Dessau, where she studied photography at the Bauhaus in order to assist him in his work. Her own photographs were mostly of people, both portraits and formal studies. Bayer's work

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Date
May 21, 1925
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Eight figures standing in a row clowning, two figures seated, in sand near water; including Xanti Schawinsky with umbrella, Hinnerk Schepert, L. Moholy-Nagy, G. Muche, and others.

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