Mary Bauermeister

German, born 1934

BiographyMary Bauermeister was born in Germany in 1934 and attended Staatliche Saarländische Schule für Kunst und Handwerk in Saarbrücken during the 50’s. She eventually moved to Cologne and opened a studio named Atelier Lintgasse 28, which often hosted avant-garde musical performances.
Her passion for music led her to the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1961. This same year, she wrote a book called Score for Painters which theorizes how to apply techniques of music composition to visual art forms. Her artwork focuses of the rhythmic ordering of space, repetition and spontaneity, which all take a role in music. Her work also has been associated with a revival of Dadaism. Her work resonates with the same anti-establishment ideas of Post WWI Dada art and the reintroduction of these themes come from her experience as a child living in Germany, Post WWII. After seeing a world ravaged by war, she questions art, mortality, religion and the cosmos.
Her work is found in many collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim, The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and has been exhibited internationally.

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