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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
Tue 22.04Public Guided Tour through Touch Nature”+ The Collection”

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

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Thu 24.04Reading with Franzobel and Natascha Gangl

The two authors provide insights into newly created texts that correspond with the themes of the exhibition. Free entry with museum ticket.

6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Thu 24.04Public Guided Tour through Touch Nature”

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

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Sat 26.04Lentos 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 26.04Los 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 27.04Family workshop: Thinking about war with children.

Together with the artist Osama Zatar, we transform our (toy) weapons into things that don’t destroy life, but make it more beautiful. We will develop peace utopias and get to know our different life experiences and cultural backgrounds.

The workshop is aimed at people of all ages with and without experience of war.

Admission free, registration requested

2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Sun 27.04Public Guided Tour through Touch Nature”

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

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Tue 29.04Public Guided Tour through Touch Nature”+ The Collection”

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

4:00 pm–5:00 pm
Thu 01.05Public Guided Tour through Touch Nature”

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

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
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Video

*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

€48Visit shop

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