Artist Keywords

Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister

Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister (1934 - 2023) was active/lived in New York / Germany.  Mary Bauermeister is known for Pioneer of performance art, sculpture, fount objects.

"Mary Bauermeister, Avant-Garde Artist and Host, Dies at 88," Obituary, The New York Times, by Will Heinrich, 2023
She played a key role in the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s, and her biggest impact may have come from the open house she kept in an attic studio.

Mary Bauermeister, a German artist who played a signature role in the development of the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s avant-garde, died on March 2 at a hospice in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. She was 88.
The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery of New York, which represented her, said the cause was breast cancer.
Ms. Bauermeister’s art practice began in postwar Germany, where she made honeycomb-like reliefs with toothpaste and modeling compound. She went on to embrace text pieces, floral drawings, music composition, unusual easels displayed as sculpture, mystical tableaus of smooth pebbles and other natural objects   ...  [Displaying 934 of 19512 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 320 auction lots for Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister (of which 248 auction records sold and 2 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 2 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister in 0 of its research Essays. Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister has 8 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister available:    Nancy Grossman,  Beverly (Stoll) Pepper,  Lester Frederick Johnson,  Ibram Lassaw,  Ludwig Wilding,  Camille Bombois,  Alan Saret,  Michael Steiner,  Kenneth D Snelson,  Bruno Krauskopf,  Ron Arad,  Ludwig Meidner,  Imi Knoebel,  Lawrence Charles Weiner,  Henryk Stazewski,  Harry Bertoia,  Dieter Roth,  Robert Natkin,  Ford Beckman,  Nicholas Africano,  Lee Krasner,  Gerard Sekoto,  Martin Wong,  Jean (Yiannis Xirocostas) Xceron