Herbert Bayer, one of the masters of the Bauhaus school, was a polymath: a painter, an architect, an industrial designer, a photographer and a typographer who invented his own alphabet. He also helped transform Aspen, Colo., from a mountain outpost to a cultural hub.

Now, Bayer is getting a permanent tribute in Aspen, where he lived for more than 30 years and designed landmark buildings including the Wheeler Opera House. The philanthropists and entrepreneurs Lynda and Stewart Resnick have donated $10 million to the nonprofit think tank the Aspen Institute, for a center dedicated to Bayer that will be located on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus, which Bayer designed. The facility, the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, will have galleries, educational programs, and an overall aim to provide tools for the preservation and study of Bayer’s work.

“This will be a repository for his work, and at the same time an active learning center,” said Dan Porterfield, the president and chief executive of the Aspen Institute. “It will study his influence and the influence of the Bauhaus, and will stretch across the generations.”