Mary Bauermeister

Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister (born 7 September 1934 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German artist.

Biography

Early life and family

Mary Bauermeister was artistically influenced in secondary school (1946–54) by her drawing teacher, Günter Ott. She studied in 1954–55 at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm and in 1955–56 at the Staatlichen Schule für Kunst und Handwerk in Saarbrücken. She has been active since 1957 as a freelance artist in Cologne.

Around 1960, in her Cologne atelier at Lintgasse 28, she hosted gatherings of members of the evolving global artistic movement Fluxus.^[1] At her invitation, avant-garde poets, composers and visual artists such as Hans G Helms, David Tudor, John Cage, Christo, Wolf Vostell, George Brecht, and Nam June Paik organised unconventional concerts of the "newest music", readings, exhibits, and actions. These activities have been described as "comparatively non-hierarchical exchanges of information across national, disciplinary and age boundaries", contributing in that way to the character of the Fluxus movement which had been developing during the 1950s.^[2]:p11

In 1961, she took part in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s composition course at the Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt.^[3] Later that same year she collaborated with Stockhausen in a theatre piece titled Originale (Originals), which was given twelve performances at the Theater am Dom, Cologne, from 26 October to 6 November 1961. Amongst the performers were Bauermeister herself (as The Painter), Nam June Paik (Actions), David Tudor (Piano and Percussion), and Hans G. Helms (The Poet).^[4] In 1962 she had her first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam with a simultaneous day-long performance of electronic music under Stockhausen's direction. On 3 April 1967, in San Francisco, she married Stockhausen, with whom she had two children: Julika (born 1966) and Simon (born 1967). She has two younger daughters, Sophie (born 1972, father David Johnson) and Esther (born 1974, father Josef Halevi).^{[citation needed]}

Residence in New York

Bauermeister, Perhaps (1965)

Drawn by the vitality of the Pop Art movement, in October 1962 Bauermeister relocated to New York. In the artistic circles of Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus, she maintained friendships with Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. In New York Bauermeister enjoyed considerable artistic success. Since 1964 she has exhibited regularly at the Galeria Bonino on 57th Street.

Later life

In the 1970s, Mary Bauermeister returned to Germany and began to occupy herself with marginal sciences, for example Geomancy, the science of energy structures in the earth. She used the knowledge she garnered from these studies for the planning of gardens, which she implemented for public and private clients throughout the world. The artist now lives in Rösrath near Cologne. On the occasion of her 70th birthday in September 2004, the Cologne Museum Ludwig acquired her 1963 wall installation Needless Needles and arranged a display of the work for several months.^{[citation needed]}

Based on material translated from the German Wikipedia

Bibliography

• [anonymous]. 1995. "Bauermeister, Mary (1934– )." In: North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1995.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 1964. Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions. 17 March–18 April, 1964. Exhibition no. 5. New York, N.Y.: Galeria Bonino, 1964.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 1965. Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, [exhibition, 13 April-8 May, 1965]. New York : Galeria Bonino.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 1967. Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, [exhibition, 7 February - 4 March, 1967]. New York : Galeria Bonino.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 1972. Mary Bauermeister: Recent Paintings and Constructions. New York: Staempfli Gallery.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 2010. Welten in der Schachtel: Mary Bauermeister und die experimentelle Kunst der 1960er Jahre / Worlds in a Box: Mary Bauermeister and the Experimental Art of the Sixties, edited by Reinhard Spieler and Kerstin Skrobanek, translations by Judith Rosenthal. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, October 2, 2010-January 6, 2011. Bielefeld: Kerber. ISBN 978-3866784499.
• Bauermeister, Mary. 2011. Ich hänge im Triolengitter: Mein Leben mit Karlheinz Stockhausen. Munich: Edition Elke Heidenreich bei C. Bertelsmann. ISBN 978-3570580240.
• Bauermeister, Mary, Alfio Castelli, et al. 1963. Two Sculptors, Four Painters: Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Galeria Bonino, Dec. 18 to Jan. 11, 1964. Exhibition no. 2. New York: Galeria Bonino.
• Bauermeister, Mary, et al. 1969. Blackwhite: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Bauermeister ... [et al.]. Catalog of an exhibition held at Morris R. Williams Center for the Arts, LaFayette College, Oct. 12–27, 1969 and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Easton, Penn.: Lafayette College.
• Bauermeister, Mary, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. 1963. Manifestatie Mary Bauermeister en Karlheinz Stockhausen: schilderijen, elektronische muziek: Catalogus van een tentoonstellingen, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1/2-24/2 1963. Den Haag: Gemeentemuseum.
• Dörstel, Wilfried, and Reinhard Matz. 1993. Intermedial, kontrovers, experimentell. Das Atelier Mary Bauermeister in Köln 1960–1962. Cologne: Emons Verlag. ISBN 3-924491-43-7
• Esman, Rosa, and Henry Geldzahler. 1966. New York International .... Design consultant: Elaine Lustig Cohen. [New York]: Tanglewood Press.
• Higgins, Hannah. 2002. Fluxus Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520228669 (cloth) ISBN 0520228677 (pbk)
• Merrill, Peter C. 1997. "Bauermeister, Mary Hilda [sic] Ruth". In German Immigrant Artists in America: a Biographical Dictionary. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.
• Perneczky, Géza . 1972. Mary Bauermeister: dal 3 al 29 febbraio 1972 alla Galleria Schwarz Catalogo (Galleria Schwarz) no. 114 . Milano: Galleria Schwarz.
• Pfennig, Reinhard. "Dreissig deutsche Maler: Situation 1962". Veranstaltet vom Oldenburger Kunstverein, vom 11. November bis 9. Dezember 1962. Oldenburg: Der Kunstverein, 1962
• Schüppenhauer, Christel, Carola Kleinstück-Schulman, and Desirée Mohr. 2004. Mary Bauermeister. "All things involved in all other things". With an interview CD. Cologne: Galerie Christel Schüppenhauer. ISBN 3-926226-57-9.
• State University College at Potsdam, N.Y. Art Gallery. 1972. Women in Art: Mary Bauermeister, Ellen Cibula, Dorthy Dehner, Harriet FeBland, Audrey Flack, Linae Frei, Sue Fuller, Dorothy Hood, Marisol, Eleanore Mikus, Beverly Pepper; an exhibition of painting and sculpture, March 3 to March 28, 1972. Potsdam, N. Y.: New York State University College, Potsdam, Art Gallery.
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1963. Texte zur Musik, vol. 2, edited by Dieter Schnebel. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg.
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz, and Mary Bauermeister. 1962. Karlheinz Stockhausen, electronische muziek & Mary Bauermeister, schilderijen: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2-25 juni 1962 .... Catalogs / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 311. "Malerische Konzeption" (folded chart) by Mary Bauermeister laid in. Amsterdam: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum.; Groninger Museum.
• Velte, Maria. 1972. Mary Bauermeister: Gemälde und Objekte, 1952-1972. Munich: Buch und Offsetdruckerei W. Biering.

References

1. ^ [...]"Mary Bauermeister (artist renowned for hosting avant-garde gatherings in 1960s Cologne)" (seminar speaker on 5 February 2009, in Korea) Fluxus Heidelberg Center Blog
2. ^ Higgins, Hannah. Fluxus Experience. University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0520228677. http://books.google.com/books?id=JjFehzK9xkYC&pg=PA11&vq=Bauermeister&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1. 
3. ^ Stockhausen 1963, 167.
4. ^ Stockhausen 1963, 107–29.

External links

• Artnet biography
• Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
• AskART.com: Mary Hilde Bauermeister

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