Herbert Bayer Bauhaus typography 1923 Weimar banknote

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Please add me to your list of favourite sellers! See note in purple below. Emergency 50 Million Mark banknote for the Thuringian state government in Weimar, 1923 Designed by Herbert Bayer at the Bauhaus 7.0 cm x 13.8 cm An extremely rare chance to acquire an example of original Bauhaus typography and a fascinating artefact from a dramatic moment in the history of the last century: a hyper-inflationary bank note from Weimar Germany. 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 Thuringian State in Weimar to design the new high value banknotes. The impoverished Weimer Republic government was desperately producing emergency notes - increasingly dramatic denominations - in a desperate 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 t until 1928, the same year Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius departed. For background on hyper-inflation in the Weimar Republic see article on . A reference to and 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. Please see top photo. Condition: Very good indeed with only very minor wear consistent with age and use. Please see photos. © Description and photographs of item by room_606. Please do not copy. Shipping N. & S. America: $10.75 Asia & Australia: $10.75 Europe (except UK): $5.25 UK: $2.20 (approx £1.10) Insurance is optional. International insurance is an extra $10. For the UK, I can offer Special Delivery Next Day (which includes insurance) for $10. I ship WORLDWIDE Payment methods Non-UK: Paypal only UK: Paypal and GBP£ cheques. IMPORTANT I have a great many more items in my eBay STORE that, since eBay changed the rules for UK sellers, no longer appear in regular item searches. So please click my icon and browse the category menu on the left. NEW! Sign up to get a weekly e-mail detailing my latest offers and finds. How? Just add me to your list of favourite eBay sellers, using the link at the top of he page. It's free and you can easily unsubscribe at any time. Don't miss out! x t Sign up for my email newsletters by adding my eBay Store to your Favorites Payment and Postage Payment Paypal is accepted and I do not add a surcharge to cover their fees. UK buyers only may also pay by cheque or postal order. If it's a cheque, please allow 7 to 10 days for it to clear. In exceptional circumstances it may be possible for overseas customers to pay by sending cash in a registered letter, but this is by prior arrangement and at the sender's risk. All buyers please make contact within 3 days of auction. Payment is required within 7 days . Non-payment All non-paying bidders are, without exception, reported to eBay. This is not for the sake of being vindictive, but because eBay charges retrospective fees calculated on the actual sale price of items and this money needs to be retrieved. It's hard enough to make ends meet on as it is! Thank you for your understanding. Please refer to eBay's policy on non-payment for more information, including its ramifications for the bidder. Condition of items Please note that, unless clearly stated otherwise, my listings are for vintage/antique items and tfore, by definition, are not going to be in the same condition you w... read more

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