ElDahab: How did you pick Thomas Bayrle?
Rehberger: At the time I thought he was the most interesting.
I stayed with him for basically all five years that I was in the school.
For me he was the most interesting teacher.
Gerhard Richter was there for two years.
He’s certainly a fantastic artist but I never had the feeling that he was a fantastic teacher. Thomas Bayrle was always so awake; he was always so open to a lot of things.
He had people in the class who wrote texts, he had people who dealt with the computer in a way which was very uncommon in the late ’80s. He had painters, he had sculptors, he had everything, and he
was quite open, and also vague.
Precise and vague at the same time; he could be very hard to understand.
When he speaks he’s very metaphoric, so it was always a challenge to interpret what he was talking about.
You had to fix it with your own interpretation.