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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.

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"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

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Facts about Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister

   Publications  Book References:  18
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews National News September 2003 Editor, ARTnews Yes
18 Book References for Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
(Exhibition catalog)
136 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1969 Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld Art Today 542 Yes
1965 Goodrich, Lloyd Young America 1965 Thirty American Artists Under 35
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
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