Mary Bauermeister

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

Life

Study

Mary Bauermeister was born the daughter of the professor of anthropology and genetics Wolf Bauermeister and singer Laura Bauermeister to the world. She attended high school in Cologne-Kalk and studied from 1954 to 1955 at the Academy of Design in Ulm, where she attended basic courses with Max Bill and Helene Nonne -Schmidt, a former student of Paul Klee. 1955 Bauermeister enrolled at the National School of Arts and Crafts in Saarbrucken with Otto Steinert ( Photo illustration). In 1956 she settled in Cologne as a freelance artist, where she lived from the sale of its previously incurred pastels. Between 1954 and 1960 she traveled to Paris a year and learned the local art scene.

Atelier Bauermeister

1960 rented Bauermeister in Lintgasse 28 in Cologne, an apartment on the top floor, where several concerts, exhibitions and intermedia events took place between March 1960 and October 1961. The cultural events in the studio Bauermeister were among the first "pre - Fluxus events' and had on artists of the later Fluxus movement a huge impact. Avant-garde poets, composers and artists such as George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Hans G Helms, David Tudor, John Cage, Christo, George Brecht and Nam June Paik held at that time on their invitation, unconventional concerts " contemporary music ", readings, exhibitions and promotions. Mary Bauermeister "pre - Fluxus " activities contributed significantly to the development of the Cologne art scene.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

In 1961, Mary Bauermeister on the composition course of Karlheinz Stockhausen at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt part. In 1967, she married Karl Heinz Stockhausen, with whom she has two children: Julika ( b. 1966 ) and Simon (1967 ). During this time, her name was also Mary Bauermeister - Stockhausen, 1973, leaves the couple divorced. 1972 born their daughter Sophie ( child with composer David Johnson ), 1974 their daughter Esther ( child with Israeli visual artist Joseph Halevi ).

First museum successes

In 1962, Bauermeister her first solo exhibition in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum with works of the years 1958-1962 and simultaneous, all-day performance of electronic music under the baton of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and other composers with whom shown Stockhausen scores in display cases in the immediate vicinity of the works Bauermeister simultaneously were. In October 1962, she traveled, attracted by the vibrant Pop Art, in New York. In the circle of artists of Pop Art, New Realism and Fluxus she used friendships with Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. In New York Bauermeister celebrated remarkable artistic achievements. In the 1960s she exhibited regularly at the Galeria Bonino on 57th street.

Work

From the two-dimensional drawing, the work Bauermeister increasingly developed into the room - finally relief and material images they arrived at the so-called lens cases, probably the most mysterious group of works by the artist, with her ​​successful 1964 breakthrough on the New York art market. Add to the viewer open white wooden boxes Bauermeister created little worlds made ​​of shiny glass, magnifying glasses, lenses and prisms, deposited by fine ink drawings and applied texts. These boxes offer with its two or three glass image planes room for the thoughts and ideas of the artist and to encourage the viewer to be closely monitored.

In the 1970s, Mary Bauermeister returned to Germany and began to deal with marginal sciences such as geomancy. The findings they used for the planning of gardens that she performed around the world for public and private clients. Today the artist lives in Rösrath near Cologne.

To celebrate its 70th birthday acquired the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 1963 formed their wall installation Needless needles and set up a showcase of (until 23 January 2005). In 2007, the Schwerin Museum acquired works by the artist and installed a permanent art space with these works alongside the exhibition rooms of their revered role model Marcel Duchamp. These works consist, inter alia, from the jukebox (1968 ), Red Magnet Picture (1959 ), Studio Fetish ( 1970) and Five shrouds (1963 ) from the series Ready trouvées as an homage to Marcel Duchamp's ready- mades.

Awards

  • Honorary citizen of the city Rösrath

Exhibitions

  • 2008/2009:. Now Jump, Festival, Station 1, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin -si
  • 2010: " art literate" Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Bonn
  • 2012: On the Road to FLUXUS, pre- Fluxus International, The Art Agent
  • 2013: resonances, with works by Jakob Mattner, 401contemporary, Berlin.

Literature and Catalogs

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen, electronische muziek & Mary Bauermeister, schilderijen. . Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1962 ( exhibition catalog: 2nd bis June 25, 1962 Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Groninger Museum ). 24 uncounted S.
  • Bauermeister: paintings and constructions. Galeria Bonino, New York. ( Exhibition catalog: 17 March to 18 April 1964 Galeria Bonino ). 28 uncounted S.
  • Historical Archive of Cologne (ed.): The Atelier Mary Bauermeister Cologne 1960-62: intermedial, controversial, experimental. Emons, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-924491-43-7. 215 pp.
  • Lara Mallien: see music, hear images. A portrait of Mary Bauermeister. In Oya 09 /2011. (Online version).
  • Christel Schüppenhauer (ed.): Mary Bauermeister: " all things Involved in all other things". Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-926226-57-9. 96 P and 1 Interview CD by Gregor Zootzky
  • Reinhard Spieler: Worlds in the box. Mary Bauermeister and the experimental art of the 1960s. Kerber Art, Wilhelm- Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 2, 2010 to January 16, 2011, Bielefeld / Leipzig / Berlin 2010
  • Marianne Pitzen and gamma Thesa Terheyden (ed.): Mary Bauermeister. Culture greenhouse - spectrum over 60 years. The book of the exhibition at the Women's Museum Bonn. Bonn, 2012. ISBN 978-3-940482-53-2

Book publications

  • Mary Bauermeister: I'm hanging in Triolengitter: My Life with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Edition Elke Heidenreich, C. Bertelsmann, 2011, ISBN 978-3570580240.
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