Artist | Thomas Bayrle (*1937)

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    • Thomas Bayrle

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Biography

Biography

born 1937

About the work (english / deutsch)

About the work (english / deutsch)

In General
Thomas Bayrle's pictures come into being by connecting of simple, everyday things with which we are all familiar being joined together: cars, houses, railway cars, airplanes, road lanes, railway tracks - whereby most of them seen from the perspective of a plan view. The single motifs are linked in a sequence back to back such that at first sight complete disorder seems to reign on the picture's surface. In this process, the rational and efficiently constructed basic components are united to form larger groups.

This theme of the relation between the individual and mass society is not new to Bayrle's work, for he already treated it in his early work. Influenced by American and English Pop Art, he constantly made use there of everyday motifs, shying no taboos in the process. The impact of intensified product advertising and the hypocritical philistine morality of the day both stimulated him in his artistic work in equal measure. Indeed, his insight that mass man today travels down the wrong roads must lead us to conclude that we must now search for our own, self-determined path to follow.

German text by Christmut Präger / Translation by Jeremy Gaines
(Extract - Full printed version available in the Museum)
MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main



Allgemeines
Die Bilder Thomas Bayrles entstehen durch Zusammenfügung einfacher, alltäglicher, jedermann bekannter Dinge. Autos, Häuser, Straßenbahnen, Eisenbahnwagen, Flugzeuge, Straßenspuren und Eisenbahngleise sind meist in perspektivischer Draufsicht wiedergegeben. Die Einzelmotive werden aneinandergereiht, so daß auf den ersten Blick eine große Unordnung die Bildfläche zu überfüllen scheint. Dabei werden die rational und rationell konstruierten Grundbestandteile zu größeren Gruppen zusammengestellt.

Schon in seinen frühen Arbeiten hat Thomas Bayrle das Verhältnis von Individuum und Massengesellschaft thematisiert und dabei immer wieder auch mit Ironie Motive aus dem Alltag benutzt, ohne vor Tabus haltzumachen. Die Auswirkungen der forcierten Produktwerbung hat ihn dabei ebenso zur künstlerischen Produktion stimuliert wie die doppelte Moral des Spießbürgertums. Aus der Beobachtung des Künstlers, daß heutzutage der Massenmensch auf falschen Wegen verkehrt, ist die Konsequenz zu ziehen, sich einen eigenen, einen selbstbestimmten Weg zu suchen.

Text von Christmut Präger
(Auszug - Der vollständige Text ist als Informationsblatt beim Museum erhältlich)
MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

Bibliography

Bibliography

Ammann, Jean-Christophe / Lauter, Rolf / Schreer, Stephanie: Thomas Bayrle. Verlag Jürgen Häusser, Darmstadt, 1994.
ISBN: 3-927902-89-6

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Exhibition History

 
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Venue types: Gallery / Museum / Non-Profit / Collector
Exhibitions in artist-info 167 (S 49/ G 118) Did show together with - Top 5 of 2775 artists
(no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
Peter Roehr (23)- 76
Gerhard Richter [Gerd Richter] (23)- 531
Sigmar Polke (22)- 403
Andy Warhol [Andrew Warhola] (19)- 952
Wolf Vostell (19)- 201
Exhibitions by type
167:   58 / 31 / 75 / 3
Venues by type
104:   29 / 19 / 53 / 3
Curators 66
artist-info records Sep 1963 - May 2026
Countries - Top 5 of 11
Germany (106)
United States (9)
Italy (4)
France (4)
Switzerland (4)
Cities - Top 5 of 48
Frankfurt am Main (53)
Berlin (20)
Düsseldorf (14)
New York (8)
Wiesbaden (5)
Venues (no. of shows ) Top 5 of 104
Galerie Ute Parduhn (14)
Frankfurter Kunstverein - FKV (7)
Galerie Barbara Weiss (6)
Museum - MMK (5)
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger (4)
Curators (no. of shows) Top 5 of 66
Jean-Christophe Ammann(5), Massimiliano Gioni(4), Rochus Kowallek(3), Gary Carrion-Murayari(2), Devrim Bayar(2)
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Pure Drawing

 - Zeichnungen von 1590–2025
H8H G Mar 2026 - Apr 2026 Frankfurt am Main (2) +0
Mohr, Michael (Curator)       +0
Hendricks, Jochem (Curator)       +0
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New Humans

 - Memories of the Future
New Museum of Contemporary Art G Mar 2026 - May 2026 New York (179) +0
Gioni, Massimiliano (Curator)       +0
Carrion-Murayari, Gary (Curator)       +0
Crockett, Vivian (Curator)       +0
Weisburg, Madeline (Curator)       +0
Wang, Calvin (Curator)       +0
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Thomas Bayrle

 - Be Happy!
SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt S Feb 2026 - May 2026 Frankfurt am Main (230) +0
Ulrich, Matthias (Curator)       +0
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Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & ...

Fondation Louis Vuitton - FLV G Oct 2024 - Feb 2025 Paris (11) +0
Buchhart, Dieter (Curator)       +0
Hofbauer, Anna Karina (Curator)       +0
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Als die Grafik boomte

 - Pop-Art auf Papier
Kunsthalle zu Kiel G Nov 2021 - May 2022 Kiel (91) +0
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The World on Paper

PalaisPopulaire G Sep 2018 - Jan 2019 Berlin (2) +0
Hütte, Friedhelm (Curator)       +0
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