Mary Bauermeister
1934–2023
Introduction
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.
Wikidata identifier
Q1426004
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Introduction
She played a role in the development of the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s avant-garde by providing a venue for artists and experimental musicians in the open house she kept in an attic studio in Cologne in 1960 and 1961. She was an active assemblage artist.
Country of birth
Germany
Roles
Artist, assemblage artist, collagist, installation artist, landscape architect, painter, performance artist, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500021872
Names
Mary Bauermeister, Mary Hilde Bauermeister, Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed May 14, 2025.
