Franz von Bayros
Decadent erotic illustrations and phantasmagoric imagery
Follow Franz von Bayros was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter, best known for his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table portfolio. He belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often utilizing erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery. Bayros was born in Zagreb, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is, today, Croatia. At the age of seventeen, he passed the entrance examination for the Vienna Academy with Eduard von Engerth. Bayros mixed in high society and was part of the circle of friends of Johann Strauss II, whose stepdaughter Alice he married in 1896. The next year, Bayros moved to Munich. In 1904, he gave his first exhibition in Munich, which was well received. From 1904 until 1908, he traveled to Paris and Italy to further his studies. In 1911, he created his most famous and controversial work, Tales from the Dressing Table for which he was later arrested and exiled from Germany. Returning to Vienna, he felt like an outsider and the outbreak of the First World War increased his sense of alienation. His work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He drew over 2000 illustrations in total. The artist died in Vienna in 1924, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Artworks by this artist (58 total)
- Blatt aus ‘Aus meinen Schlössern’ 1 ca 1923
- Bookplate of Vera Rosa Katherine Henriette von Rosenberg 1911
- Design for Frontispiece
- Ex Libris Walther and Amelia Fahrenhorst 1912
- Ch’al Sommo Pince ed e natura Noi di collo in callo
- Erotische Darstellung 7
- Woman in Bed Observing a Donkey
- Bookplate of Odo Röttig 1911
- Three Vignettes for Book Illustration
- Blatt aus ‘Aus meinen Schlössern’ 3 ca 1923
- Blatt aus ‘Aus meinen Schlössern’ 2 ca 1923
- Ex libris Privy Councilor Lichtenberg
- Blatt aus ‘Aus meinen Schlössern’ 5 ca 1923
- Three Dancing Women in a Restaurant Watched by Cupid
- Erotische Darstellung 10
- The practical Parisian 1914
- Bookplate of Jos. L. Dirick, Bruxelles 1911
- Erotische Darstellung 9
- Bookplate; Kekleimenon Des Küntlers eigenes Buchzeichen 1911
- Erotische Darstellung 5 circa 1912