Mary bauermeister biography
- Mary Hildegard Ruth Bauermeister (7 September 1934 – 2 March 2023) was a.
- Mary Hildegard Ruth Bauermeister was a German artist who worked in sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and music.
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Mary Bauermeister
German artist (1934–2023)
Mary Hildegard Ruth Bauermeister (7 September 1934 – 2 March 2023) was a German artist who worked in sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and music. Influenced by Fluxus artists and Nouveau Réalisme, her work addresses esoteric issues of how information is transferable through society. "I only followed an inner drive to express what was not yet there, in reality or thought", she said of her practice. "To make art was more a finding, searching process than a knowing." Beginning in the 1970s, her work concentrated on the themes surrounding New Age spirituality, specifically geomancy, the divine interpretation of lines on the ground.[1]
Biography
Early life and artistic beginnings
Mary Bauermeister was born in Frankfurt am Main, the second of five children,[2] to Wolf Bauermeister, a professor of genetics and anthropology, and Laura (Renzi) Bauermeister, a singer.[3][4] She spent her early childhood in Kiel, before moving to the suburbs of Cologne. During the Secon
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Mary Bauermeister (1934-2023)
Progressions, 1962-2014
stones on plywood coated with sand
21 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 53.7 x 53.7 x 16.5 cm
signed
This is a Commentary Work, 1964-2017
ink, stone, offset print, watercolor, metal tool, pencil, glass, glass lens and painted wood box construction
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches / 21.6 x 21.6 x 10.8 cm
signed and dated
Red China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966
ink, glass, glass lens, wood, felt-tip pen, plastic ink bottle and wood construction
16 5/8 x 16 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches / 42.2 x 42.5 x 15.9 cm
signed
China Tinta-Import Forbidden, 1966–69
ink, offset print, glass, glass lens, wooden sphere and painted canvas and wood construction
78 x 24 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches / 198.1 x 62.9 x 24.1 cm
signed
Ora et Labora, 1968
wood, stones, and replicas of pebbles on sanded particle board
31 1/2 x 45 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches / 80 x 114.8 x 12.4 cm
Corner Easel, 1969-70
wooden artist easel, small prints and objects in the two drawers
80 7/8 x 24 7/8
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Mary Bauermeister studied at two art academies in the mid 1950s but left both after a short time. She spent about a year at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and the Hochschule für Kunst und Handwerk in Saarbrücken. Works from this period include abstract and non-representational paintings on canvas, reliefs, and drawings that oscillate between Constructivism, Art Informel and the emerging Zero movement.
By the end of the 1950s she had moved to Cologne, where her attic studio became a meeting place for the avant-garde. Art, music, architecture and poetry were embraced and artists such as Nam June Paik (1932-2006), John Cage, Otto Piene (1928-2014), David Tudor and Karlheinz Stockhausen presented their interdisciplinary, intermedial and performative experiments. In this context M. Bauermeister is usually reduced to the role of host, as her own artistic work developed in a different direction.
Around 1960, M. Bauermeister began creating her own aesthetic of many-valuedness. From this point onwards her oeuvre became increasingly diverse in terms of media, techniqu
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