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Shining a light on Bayer’s time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and his route out of the Nazi state, Rössler provides rich new insights into how Bauhaus artists navigated a protracted period of social upheaval and dictatorship, where commercial success was fraught with a deep hostility towards the regime and the temptations of emigration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevealing the tensions of an avant-garde artist struggling to practice during a period of repression, \u003cem\u003eHerbert Bayer, Graphic Designer\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to both the memory of those who left Nazi Germany and the perseverance of artists and intellectuals throughout history who have worked under authoritarian regimes. 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