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Herbert Matter (1907-1984)

Herbert Matter was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art. The designer's innovative and experimental work helped shape the vocabulary of 20th-century graphic design.

Herbert Matter studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and at the Académie Moderne in Paris with Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant. He worked with Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Le Corbusier and Deberney & Peignot. In 1932 he returned to Zurich, where he designed posters for the Swiss National Tourist Office and Swiss resorts. The travel posters won instant international acclaim for his pioneering use of photomontage combined with type. He went to the United States in 1936 and was hired by legendary art director Alexey Brodovich. Work for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and other magazines followed. From 1946 to 1966 he was design consultant with Knoll Associates. He worked closely with Charles and Ray Eames. From 1952 to 1976 he was professor of photography at Yale University (where one of Matter's students was Peter Seitz) and from 1958 to 1968 he served as design consultant to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. He was elected to the New York Art Director's Club Hall of Fame in 1977, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in photography in 1980 and the AIGA medal in 1983.

As a photographer, Matter won acclaim for his purely visual approach. A master technician, he used every method available to achieve his vision of light, form and texture. Manipulation of the negative, retouching, cropping, enlarging and light drawing are some of the techniques he used to achieve the fresh, enignatic form he sought in his still lifes, landscapes, nudes and portraits. As a filmmaker he directed a film on his friend Alexander Calder (with music by John Cage) for the Museum of Modern Art in 1952.

Close friends of Herbert Matter and his wife Mercedes were the painters Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, fellow Swiss photographer Robert Frank and Alberto Giacometti. Matter's wife Mercedes was the daughter of the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles, and was herself the chief founder of the New York Studio School.

"The absence of pomposity was characteristic of this guy," said another designer, Paul Rand, about Matter. While his creative life was devoted to narrowing the gap between so-called fine and applied arts, the deed is often best stated through works rather than through speech. Herbert Matter died on May 8 1984 in Southampton, New York.
 
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Portrait of Mercedes Matter

Portrait of Mercedes Matter
Image & Paper: 10" x 8"

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 Giacometti Sculpture Photo III

Giacometti Sculpture Photo III
Image & Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Giacometti's Workbench

Giacometti's Workbench
Image & Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Giacometti Single Bronze II

Giacometti Single Bronze II
Image & Paper: 11" x 14"

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Calder Mobile I

Calder Mobile I
Image & Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Calder Mobile II

Calder Mobile II
Image & Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Calder Hanging Mobile

Calder Hanging Mobile
Image & Paper: 11.25" x 14"

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 Portrait of a Boy

Portrait of a Boy
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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Portrait of Giacometti

Portrait of Giacometti
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Giacometti

Giacometti
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 Man Image I

Man Image I
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Man Image II

Man Image II
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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Man Image III

Man Image III
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 Multiple Giacometti Bronzes II

Multiple Giacometti Bronzes II
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 Calder Mobile in Studio

Calder Mobile in Studio
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 Portrait of a Man II

Portrait of a Man II
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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Calder Mobile Outdoors

Calder Mobile Outdoors
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Calder's Studio

Calder's Studio
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 Calder Mobile Suspended

Calder Mobile Suspended
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Sculpture Outdoors

Sculpture Outdoors
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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Multiple Giacometti Bronzes III

Multiple Giacometti Bronzes III
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Giacometti Single Bronze I

Giacometti Single Bronze I
Image & Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Giacometti Sculpture Despair

Giacometti Sculpture Despair
Image & Paper: 16" x 12"

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 Multiple Giacometti Bronzes I

Multiple Giacometti Bronzes I
Image & Paper: 16" x 20"

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Giacometti Sculpture Photo I

Giacometti Sculpture Photo I
Image & Paper: 16" x 20"

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 Giacometti Sculpture Photo II

Giacometti Sculpture Photo II
Image & Paper: 16" x 20"

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 In Giacometti's Studio

In Giacometti's Studio
Image: 10.5" x 13.5" / Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Portrait of Fernand Leger

Portrait of Fernand Leger
Image: 10.5" x 8"/ Paper: 14" x 11"

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Trees with Snow

Trees with Snow
Image: 10.75" x 11" / Paper: 11" x 13.75"

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 Two Trees Framing Houses

Two Trees Framing Houses
Image: 11" x 10.5" / Paper: 14" x 11"

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 Portrait of Alexander Calder

Portrait of Alexander Calder
Image: 11" x 13.25" / Paper: 11" x 14"

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 Portrait of a Man I

Portrait of a Man I
Image: 13" x 10.5" / Paper: 14" x 11"

Our Price: $4,450.00


 
 
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