Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
Aspen Institute
In Person
The Spiritual in Art: Bayer, Kandinsky and the Bauhaus-Aspen Connection
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Sun Aug 17, 2025
Aspen, Colorado
Date
Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:00pm – 4:00pm MDT
Location
Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
610 Gillespie Ave
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Sun Aug 17, 2025
Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
610 Gillespie Ave
About the Event
Reading Wassily Kandinsky’s watershed 1911 book “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” changed the young Herbert Bayer’s life. It inspired Bayer to go to the Bauhaus School at age 21, to study under Kandinsky and to practice multi-disciplinarily for the decades that followed in Aspen and beyond. This free event at the Bayer Center on the Aspen Institute campus will include a short talk by Andrew Travers on the Kandinsky-Bayer connection and the book that inspired Bayer and the AMFS season theme, along with a walkthrough of the museum’s current exhibition, Sculpting the Environment: The Three-Dimensional Art of Herbert Bayer. Join us prior to the Aspen Festival Orchestra concert at 4:00 PM.
