Hans Bayens was born in Belgium as the son of Dutch parents. He studied at the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp (1946-1949) where he was a pupil of Isidore Opsomer. Hans worked for a while in Paris then settled in Amsterdam in 1952. He made portraits of, among others, Willem Drees , Wim Kan and Maurits van Loon. As a sculptor, he made a number of bronzes of Dutch authors such as Multatuli and Thijssen. Bayens worked as a painter in the impressionist style - sometimes considered part of the independent realists.