Herbert Bayer

♂ *1900-1985 / Austria / USA

Works

Solo exhibitions

ahoi herbert! bayer und die moderne

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
8 May 2009 – 2 Aug 2009
Bauhaus Legacy

Kent Fine Art, New York (US)
10 May 2003 – 25 Jul 2003

Group

Traces of Reality / Spuren der Wirklichkeit

200 Years of Photography from the Collections of the Museums of the City of Linz / 200 Jahre Fotografie aus den Sammlungen der Museen der Stadt Linz

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
29 May 2026 – 16 Aug 2026

with Laurien Bachmann, Edouard Baldus, Gottfried Bechtold, Dietmar Brehm, Julia Margaret Cameron, Inge Dick, Valie Export, Sissi Farassat, Trude Fleischmann, Katharina Gruzei, Dagmar Höss, Ilse Haider …
Hello Image. Die Inszenierung der Dinge

Design, Fotografie und Grafik

Museum Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg (DE)
4 Apr 2025 – 12 Apr 2026

with Marianne Brandt, El Lissitzky, Hans Finsler, Hein Gorny, Prince Gyasi, Hans Hansen, Peter Keetman, Gyoergy Kepes, Willi Moegle, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ugo Mulas, Irving Penn …
Neues Sehen, Neue Sachlichkeit und Bauhaus

Fotografische Neuerwerbungen aus der Sammlung Siegert

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
12 Oct 2024 – 23 Feb 2025

with Aenne Biermann, Hugo Erfurth, Lotte Jacobi, Germaine Krull, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Charlotte Rudolph, August Sander, Friedrich Seidenstuecker, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
Picturing Nature

Ein Blick in die Sammlung SpallArt

EIKON Schauraum, Wien (AT)
25 Feb 2022 – 8 May 2022

with Ansel Adams, Adrian Bischoff, Théodore Blanc, Blanc & Demilly, Karl Blossfeldt, Robert Bodnar, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Constantin Ettingshausen & Alois Pokorny, William E. Dassonville, Ernst Haas, Sanna Kannisto …
Masterworks of Modern Photography (MoMA)

The Thomas Walther Collection

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
14 Sep 2021 – 13 Feb 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Aurel Bauh, Aenne Biermann, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Arturo Bragaglia, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Brassai, Marianne Breslauer, Annie Brigman …
A Look at the Collection / Blick in die Sammlung

On the 70th anniversary of the DGPh / Der DGPh zum 70.

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
3 Sep 2021 – 16 Jan 2022

with Erich Angenendt, Thomas Berndt, Kilian Breier, Fritz Brill, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold E. Edgerton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hugo Erfurth, Herbert W. Franke, Robert Haeusser, Heinrich Heidersberger, Heinrich Kuehn …
The Whole World a Bauhaus

ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
26 Oct 2019 – 16 Feb 2020

with Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Edmund Collein, Erich Consemueller, Lyonel Feininger, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Hajo (Hans-Jochim) Rose, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
The Lobster Quadrille

Die Hummer-Quadrille

Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln (DE)
6 May 2019 – 21 Jul 2019

with Jim Dine, Ruth Hallensleben, Willi Moegle, Roselyne Titaud
PHOTOGRAPHY / FOTOGRAFIE

From the LENTOS's collection / Aus der Sammlung des LENTOS

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
1 Feb 2019 – 12 May 2019

with Irene Andessner, Edouard Baldus, Lewis Baltz, Peter Baum, Antonio Beato, Wilhelm Burger, Julia Margaret Cameron, Etienne Carjat, Heinz Cibulka, Elisabeth Czihak, Walter Ebenhofer, William Eggleston …
menschenskinder

Portraitfotografie – Sammlung Spallart

Städt. Galerie Rosenheim, Rosenheim (DE)
8 Dec 2018 – 10 Mar 2019

with Irene Andessner, Ursula Arnold, Joseph Beuys, Otto Breicha, Guenter Brus, Robert Capa, Katharine Cooper, Herbert Doering-Spengler, Robert Doisneau, Frantisek Drtikol, Walker Evans, Isabella Gherardi …
Photo/Politics/Austria

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
12 Jul 2018 – 3 Feb 2019

with Heimrad Baecker, Guenter Brus, Seiichi Furuya, Ernst Haas, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Barbara Pflaum, Ingeborg Strobl
Space & Photography

Raum und Fotografie

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
25 Nov 2017 – 22 Apr 2018

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Franz Bergmüller, Giacomo Brogi, Jindrich Eckert, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Seiichi Furuya, Isa Genzken, Georges Lévy & Moyse Léon, Johannes Gramm, Birgit Graschopf, Florence Henri, M. Hoffmann …
NAUTILUS

Snails, Mussels, and Other Mollusks in Photography / Schnecken, Muscheln und andere Mollusken in der Fotografie

Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin (DE)
13 Jan 2018 – 15 Apr 2018

with Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Ehrhardt, Andreas Feininger, Florence Henri, Horst P. Horst, Fred Koch, Herbert List, Man Ray , Lee Miller, Aenne Mosbacher, Walter Peterhans, Edward Steichen …
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection

Tate Modern, London (GB)
10 Nov 2016 – 7 May 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing, Brassai, Imogen Cunningham, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Man Ray , Tina Modotti, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Steichen, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909-49

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 Dec 2014 – 26 Apr 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gertrud Arndt, Irene Bayer, Blanc & Demilly, Karl Blossfeldt, Arturo Bragaglia, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Constantin Brancusi, Marianne Breslauer, Francis Bruguire, Claude Cahun …
RealSurreal

Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography. Das Neue Sehen. 1920-1950. Siegert Collection

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
15 Nov 2014 – 6 Apr 2015

with Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Aenne Biermann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Brassai, Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke, Florence Henri, Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Herbert List, Man Ray …
Perfectly Strange

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (US)
13 Sep 2014 – 4 Jan 2014

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Alexander Rodchenko, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Peter Witkin
Collection on Display IV

The Magic of the Object

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
1 Jun 2013 – 15 Sep 2013

with Peter Dressler, Jaromir Funke, Seiichi Furuya, Robert F. Hammerstiel, Franz Kapfer, Hans Kupelwieser, Franz Linschinger, Heinz Loew, Mahony, Elfriede Mejchar, David Muth, Karel Novak …
WOLKEN

Bilder zwischen Himmel und Erde

Leopold Museum, Wien (AT)
22 Mar 2013 – 1 Jul 2013

with Bruce Conner, Gustave Le Gray, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz
Fotos

Österreichische Fotografien von den 1930ern bis heute

Belvedere 21, Wien (AT)
30 Jan 2013 – 5 May 2013

with Claudia Angelmaier, Gottfried Bechtold, Norbert Becwar, Arthur Benda, Martin Bruch, Clegg & Guttmann , Plamen Dejanov, Inge Dick, Gerald Domenig, Andreas Duscha, Thomas Freiler, Padhi Frieberger …
La morada del hombre

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
23 Feb 2012 – 16 Jun 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Miriam Baeckstroem, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Brouws, Alain Bublex, Gregory Crewdson, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer), Stan Douglas …
Magie des Objektes

Meisterwerke der Fotografie aus drei Jahrhunderten

Leopold Museum, Wien (AT)
10 Jun 2011 – 3 Oct 2011

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Alfred Ehrhardt, Ernst Haas, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus), Elfriede Mejchar, Richard Misrach, Wolfgang Reichmann, Aaron Siskind, Josef Sudek, Arthur Tress …
The Moderns - Revolutions in Art and Science 1890-1935

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
25 Jun 2010 – 31 Jan 2011

with Marcel Duchamp, El Lissitzky, Raoul Hausmann, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Weston
Sammlung FOTOGRAFIS Bank Austria im MdM Salzburg

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
20 Jun 2009 – 5 Oct 2009

with Robert Adamson, Diane Arbus, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ernest James Bellocq, Arthur Benda, Bisson Freres, Karl Blossfeldt, Howard Bond, Margaret Bourke-White, Renata Breth …
Das Leben der Dinge

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
10 Oct 2008 – 15 Mar 2009

with Hans Bellmer, Walker Evans, Juergen Klauke, Les Krims, Man Ray , Emila Medkova, Oskar Nerlinger, Alois Nozicka, Roger Parry, Walter Peterhans, Tomas Svoboda, Václav Zykmund
Das Leben der Dinge

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
10 Oct 2008 – 1 Feb 2009

with Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Frantisek Drtikol, Walker Evans, Hans Finsler, Franz Hanfstaengl, Raoul Hausmann, Lewis Hine, David Hockney, Juergen Klauke, Les Krims …
Photo20esimo

maestri della fotografia del XX secolo

Museo d'Arte, Lugano (CH)
5 Oct 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

with Berenice Abbott, Paola Agosti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Olivo Barbieri, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Irene Bayer …
FRANKIERTE FANTASTEREIEN / THE STAMP OF FANTASY

Das Spielerische der Fotografie im Medium der Postkarte

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
27 Oct 2007 – 10 Feb 2008

with Hans Bellmer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Paul Citroen, Marcel Duchamp, El Lissitzky, Hannah Hoech, Andre Kertesz, Gustav Klutsis, Dora Maar
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
12 Oct 2007 – 13 Jan 2008

with Wilhelm Angerer, Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Ellen Auerbach, Karol Aufricht, Theo Ballmer, Rudolf Balogh, Josef Bartuska, Wladyslaw Bednarczuk, Hans Bellmer, Ernö Berda, Ladislav E. Berka, Eva Besnyoe …
Laboratorium Moderne

Bildende Kunst, Fotografie und Film im Aufbruch

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
3 Mar 2007 – 7 Oct 2007

with Albert Renger-Patzsch, August Sander, Paul Wolff
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
10 Jun 2007 – 3 Sep 2007

with Wilhelm Angerer, Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Ellen Auerbach, Karol Aufricht, Theo Ballmer, Rudolf Balogh, Josef Bartuska, Wladyslaw Bednarczuk, Hans Bellmer, Ernö Berda, Ladislav E. Berka, Eva Besnyoe …
75 at 75

Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection of Photography

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (US)
22 Sep 2006 – 22 Oct 2006

with William Eggleston, William Henry Fox Talbot, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andreas Gursky, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray , Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth
Berlin - Tokio / Tokio - Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
8 Jun 2006 – 3 Oct 2006

with Candice Breitz, Marianne Breslauer, Chargesheimer, Ei-Q, Annika Eriksson, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Walter Funkat, George Grosz, Hannah Hoech, Hannah Hoech, Heinz Hajek-Halke …
Nomaden im Kunstsalon

Begegnungen mit der Moderne

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
27 Jan 2006 – 10 Sep 2006

with Dieter Appelt, Felice Beato, Canan Dagdelen, Erich Lessing, Shirin Neshat, Arnulf Rainer, Sean Scully, Richard Serra
Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
28 Jan 2006 – 7 May 2006

with Candice Breitz, Marianne Breslauer, Chargesheimer, Ei-Q, Annika Eriksson, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Walter Funkat, George Grosz, Hannah Hoech, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Hiroshi Hamaya …
Von Henri Cartier-Bresson bis Charlotte March

Einblicke in die Sammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
10 Dec 2005 – 8 Jan 2006

with Kilian Breier, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold E. Edgerton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Hugo Erfurth, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Heinrich Heidersberger, Heinrich Kuehn, Peter Keetman, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Robert Lebeck, Peter Magubane …
The Life of Things

The Idea of Still Life in Photography 1840–1985 - The Siegert Collection

City Prague Gallery at The Stone Bell Ho, Praha (CZ)
28 Oct 2005 – 8 Jan 2006

with Charles Hippolyte Aubry, Hans Bellmer, Baron Adolphe De Meyer, Frantisek Drtikol, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, David Hockney, Juergen Klauke, August Kotzsch, Les Krims, Herbert List, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kalmus) …
Constructed Images

Kent Fine Art, New York (US)
9 Dec 2004 – 29 Jan 2005

with Bobby Neel Adams, Peter Kennard
Bauhaus e primitivo

Galleria ab Origena, Milano (IT)
27 Oct 2004 – 10 Dec 2004

with Ellen Auerbach, Paul Citroen, Jaroslav Roessler
Il museo, le collezioni

MUNAF Museo, Milano (IT)
3 Apr 2004 – 1 Jul 2004

with Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Hans Bellmer, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Edouard Boubat, Maurizio Buscarino, Vincenzo Castella, Carla Cerati, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Arnaud Claass, Cesare Colombo, Pierre Cordier …
Bauhaus Photography

124 original photographs by more than forty photographers

The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary ar, Cairo (EG)
18 Apr 2004 – 12 May 2004

with Ellen Auerbach, Marianne Brandt, Paul Citroen, Alfred Ehrhardt, Andreas Feininger, Walter Funkat, Florence Henri, Lucia Moholy, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, UMBO (Otto Umbehr)
Subjektive Fotografie

Otto Steinerts Schüler in Saarbrücken

LUDWIGGALERIE, Oberhausen (DE)
24 May 2003 – 7 Sep 2003

with Raoul Hausmann, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Otto Steinert
Ich bin's. Selbstbild - Menschenbild - Weltbild

Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Berlin (DE)
30 Jan 2003 – 21 Apr 2003

with Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Hannah Hoech, Raoul Hausmann, August Sander, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Herbert Tobias, Rolf von Bergmann, Wolf Vostell
Das zweite Gesicht

Metamorphosen des fotografischen Porträts

Deutsches Museum, München (DE)
8 May 2002 – 11 Aug 2002

with Gertrud Arndt, Aziz + Cucher, Aenne Biermann, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Erwin Blumenfeld, Gerd Bonfert, Ecke Bonk, Anton Giuglio Bragaglia, Nancy Burson, Louis Caillaud, Julia Margaret Cameron, Mario Castagneri …
Modern Art in Your Life

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
5 Oct 1949 – 4 Dec 1949

with Marianne Brandt, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Charles Eames, El Lissitzky, Constantin Joffe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Events

Art Salon Zürich 2025

Art Salon Zürich, Zürich (CH)
23 Oct 2025 – 26 Oct 2025

with Marina Abramovic, Balthasar Burkhard, Patrik Fuchs, Rene Groebli, George Grosz, F. C. Gundlach, Roger Humbert, Edmund Kesting, Sherrie Levine, Arnold Odermatt, Orlan, Sonja Maria Schobinger …
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2025

AIPAD, New York (US)
24 Apr 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

with Slim Aarons, Stanko Abadzic, Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Mariette Pathy Allen, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Maria Antelman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus …
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth B41

Michael Hoppen Gallery, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Guy Bourdin, Luis Buñuel, Claude Cahun, Horacio Coppola, Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Ei-Q, Masahisa Fukase, Fergus Greer, Kati Horna, Dora Maar, Man Ray …
Photography from the 19th - 21st Century

Photographie des 19. bis 21. Jahrhundert

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
5 Jun 2023 – 13 Jun 2023

with Dieter Appelt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eugene Atget, Felice Beato, Hans Bellmer, Sibylle Bergemann, Karl Blossfeldt, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Toni Catany …
PhotoNOLA 2019

New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans (US)
11 Dec 2019 – 14 Dec 2019

with Gertrud Arndt, Everett Kennedy Brown, William Christenberry, Whit Forrester, Steven Forster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ross Halfins, Richard McCabe, Tammy Mercure, Sandro Miller, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Linka A Odom …
Bassenge Photography Auction 114

19th – 21s t Century Photography

Bassenge Fotoauktionen, Berlin (DE)
25 Nov 2019 – 4 Dec 2019

with Ottomar Anschütz, Dieter Appelt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Roger Ballen, Max Baur, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sibylle Bergemann, Bisson Freres, Christian Borchert, Pierre Boucher, Adolphe Braun, Kurt Buchwald …
Photographs / Photographies

Collection of / Fonds de la Galerie Michèle Chomette

PESTEL - DEBORD, Paris (FR)
20 Jun 2019 – 21 Jun 2019

with Ansel Adams, Olympe Aguado, Henri Bechard, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, Edouard Baldus, Bisson Freres, Frédéric Boissonnas, Edouard Boubat, Samuel Bourne, Adolphe Braun, Jacques Charlier, Eugene Chauvigne …