Tom Beyer is a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. From 1923-25, Beyer was a pupil of the Werkkunstschule Münster near Isenberg; from 1925-26, he was pupil of the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf with Theo Klaar; and in 1927 attended a study trip to Sweden, as a pupil of Ernst Norlind in Landskrona. Tom Beyer traveled from 1927-31 to Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden and Paris. In 1931, he worked at a studio in Berlin. From 1933-34, Beyer studied with Martin Bloch. In 1935, he became freelance and moved to Göhren Rügen. In 1937 exhibition ban, and then from 1939-45 he served in the military during the Second World War. In 1949 Beyer became head of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Art School in Putbus, a member of the GDR Association of Fine Artists. In 1952, he moved to Stralsund and freelanced. Beginning in 1972, Tom Beyer was an honorary professor at the Berlin Art Academy - Weißensee and supplied art exhibitions to the GDR since 1953.

German landscape painter, Tom Beyer studied at the Werkkunstschule Münster as well as at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf. He traveled extensively, mainly to Scandinavia. He escaped the pressure of the Nazi regime by moving to Rügen; nonetheless his works were banned from exhibitions in 1937. One of his chief works is a fresco in the Stralsund town hall.