Herbert & Joella Bayer
Joining Forces in the Service of Art
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 |
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Thu 10.07 | Public 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 |
Thu 10.07 | The Making-of: Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser (Fully booked) Curator Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller will guide you through the exhibition. German only | 7:00 pm–8:00 pm |
Fri 11.07 | Family Night | Exploring the Lentos Full of the joy of discovery, we roam the exhibitions of the Lentos Kunstmuseum, in search of the unusual and enigmatic, hidden in the works of art. | 6:00 pm–6:30 pm |
Fri 11.07 | Family Night | Open Danube Studio: “Figures come to life” You can join at any time. Everyone is invited to become artistically active: create your own finger or stick figure, bring it to life and immerse yourself in the adventurous world of art. | 6:00 pm–9:00 pm |
Fri 11.07 | Family Night | Exploring the Lentos Full of the joy of discovery, we roam the exhibitions of the Lentos Kunstmuseum, in search of the unusual and enigmatic, hidden in the works of art. | 7:00 pm–7:30 pm |
Fri 11.07 | Family Night | Exploring the Lentos Full of the joy of discovery, we roam the exhibitions of the Lentos Kunstmuseum, in search of the unusual and enigmatic, hidden in the works of art. | 8:00 pm–8:30 pm |
Sat 12.07 | Lentos Atelier (Fully booked) 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 12.07 | 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 |
Sat 12.07 | Guided tour of “Cool. Collection Erwin Hauser” in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) Guided tours with sign language interpreter in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Duration 1 hour. Free for people with hearing impairments. No registration required. | 4:00 pm–5:00 pm |
Sun 13.07 | Workshop: Building dream creatures from papier-mâché! to Nika Kupyrova Together with the artist Nika Kupyrova and inspired by her exhibition Simulacra, we create objects, avatars and creatures out of papier-mâché. This is how “ambassadors” between different realities, fictions and dreams are created. | 10:00 am–1:00 pm |
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