Herbert & Joella Bayer
Joining Forces in the Service of Art
Exhibition view, Herbert & Joella Bayer, 2022 
Exhibition view, Herbert & Joella Bayer, 2022 
In this show, the Lentos puts its Bayer Archive centre stage. This archive is one of the most comprehensive collections in Europe featuring works by this truly universal, Upper Austrian born artist.
For the first time the exhibition also showcases his collaboration with his wife, Joella. In her capacities as manager and donor, she made a significant contribution to Herbert’s success.
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) is considered the epitome of the modern universal type of artist. His career took him from Linz to Germany and the United States, where he continued his Bauhaus inspired work for international corporations, museums, and the tourism industry. As an architect, designer, painter, sculptor and landscape designer, he shaped the townscape of such places as Aspen, where the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies opened this year.
Joella (1907 – 2004), daughter of the famous writer, artist and feminist Mina Loy (1882 – 1966), not only took charge of her husband’s estate after his death, but she was also his muse and artistic mentor during his lifetime and a source of inspiration for Dalí and Man Ray. She had a remarkable talent for bringing together different personalities from the worlds of business and art.
The exhibition puts a unique focus on Bayer’s success as a commercial designer in Germany and the United States. Photos from private US Archives and by Bayer’s first wife, Irene Bayer Hecht (1898 – 1991), and Ise Gropius (1897 – 1983) of Bauhaus as well as Mina Loy supplement the Lentos’s holdings. These are comprised of more than 200 works generously donated to the Lentos between 1986 and 2004 by Herbert and Joella Bayer. Some are more recent acquisitions.
Curator: Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller
Exhibition Design: Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch
Interactive Exhibition part
Let’s redesign the exhibition space! Inspired by Bauhaus ideas, a large part of the show invites visitors to use and design it themselves. Elements of this interactive area of the exhibition can be used, moved and changed. In this way, the exhibition space is created anew again and again.
| Date | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 21.01 | DECONSTRUCTING GIRLS*: Discussion event with students of the University of Arts Linz Discussion event with students from the Art and Design (Teacher Education) degree program, in collaboration with the Department of Subject Didactics – Mediation – Research. The event is based on the course “Decoding and Sensing within the Arts & Media: Deconstructing Regimes of Representation and Perception”, led by Petz Haselmayer. | 2:00 pm–3:30 pm |
| Thu 22.01 | The Room: The Unevenness of Change. A Workshop on Bodies and Growing Spaces Workshop by Kunstraum Goethestraße xtd, pro mente Upper Austria and Lentos Art Education in cooperation with pro mente Jugend – youth residence blue.box and Ausbildungsfit work.box, VSG AusbildungsFIT & pre-module FACTORY, and she:works GmbH. | 6:00 pm–8:00 pm |
| Thu 22.01 | Public tour: Being a Girl*!? Duration: 60 minutes, max. 25 participants, guided tour ticket €4 (plus admission). No registration required (“first come, first served”). | 6:00 pm–7:00 pm |
| Sat 24.01 | Lentos Atelier Children and young people between the ages of 6 and 12 have the opportunity to discover works of art, work creatively and try out different techniques in the Lentos studio. | 10:00 am–12:00 pm |
| Sat 24.01 | Los Lentoninios (Fully booked) Every second Saturday each month (in the holidays: Tuesday) our youngest visitors are cordially invited to the Donauatelier to give their fantasy and creativity free rein. | 3:00 pm–4:30 pm |
| Sun 25.01 | Public tour: Being a Girl*!? Duration: 60 minutes, max. 25 participants, guided tour ticket €4 (plus admission). No registration required (“first come, first served”). | 4:00 pm–5:00 pm |
| Tue 27.01 | Public tour: Being a Girl*!? + The Collection Duration: 60 minutes, max. 25 participants, guided tour ticket €4 (plus admission). No registration required (“first come, first served”). | 4:00 pm–5:00 pm |
| Thu 29.01 | Public tour: Being a Girl*!? Duration: 60 minutes, max. 25 participants, guided tour ticket €4 (plus admission). No registration required (“first come, first served”). | 6:00 pm–7:00 pm |
| Thu 29.01 | The Room: Why Girls Should Make a Revolution What role have girls played in history, and what role should they play in the future? With Elisabeth von Samsonow (artist and philosopher). | 6:00 pm–8:00 pm |
| Sat 31.01 | Lentos Atelier Children and young people between the ages of 6 and 12 have the opportunity to discover works of art, work creatively and try out different techniques in the Lentos studio. | 10:00 am–12:00 pm |
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