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Herbert & Joella Bayer
Joining Forces in the Service of Art

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  • 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
Sat 13.09Lentos 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 13.09Los Lentoninios

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 14.09Public guided tour through Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser”

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Tue 16.09Public guided tour through Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser“ und The Collection“

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”), German only

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Thu 18.09Public guided tour through Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser”

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Sat 20.09Lentos 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 20.09A Studio for All Age Groups (Fully booked)

Every first Saturday each month we throw open the door of our Atelier für Alle”, our studio for sessions with all age groups from 0 – 99. 

2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Sun 21.09Public guided tour through Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser”

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”)

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Tue 23.09Baby Tour: Von der Freude am Sammeln. Zur Ausstellung Cool, Sammlung Erwin Hauser”

Ein entspannter Rundgang durch die Ausstellung, der ganz auf die Bedürfnisse von Besucher*innen mit Baby abgestimmt ist. Kosten: nur Museumseintritt

10:30 am–11:30 am
Tue 23.09Public guided tour through Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser“ und The Collection“

Duration 60 minutes, max. 25 people, guided tour ticket € 4 (plus admission) No registration required (“first-come-first-served”), German only

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
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*Please understand that we offer our video production in German language only.

#SneekPeek: Herbert & Joella Bayer

Catalogue for the exhibition Ahoy Herbert! Bayer und die Moderne” (08.05. – 02.08.09) published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz. With texts by Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller and Bernhard Widder. hardcover, colour illustrations

516 pages, german

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