Mary Farmer

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Mary Bauermeister (2019)
Mary Bauermeister in front of a crystal object (2012)

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

Life

Education

Mary Bauermeister was born as the daughter of the professor of anthropology and genetics Wolf Bauermeister and the singer Laura Bauermeister. She broke off school attendance at the high school in Cologne-Kalk half a year before graduation and applied to the Ulm School of Design in 1954 , where she attended basic courses with Max Bill and Helene Nonné-Schmidt , a former student of Paul Klee . In 1955 Bauermeister enrolled at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken with Otto Steinert (photography). In 1956 she settled in Cologne as a freelance artist, where she lived off the sale of her pastels. Between 1954 and 1960 she traveled to Paris every year and got to know the art scene there.

Atelier builder

In 1960 Bauermeister rented an apartment on the top floor at Lintgasse 28 in Cologne, where several concerts, exhibitions and intermedia events took place between March 1960 and October 1961. The cultural events in the Bauermeister studio were among the first “pre-Fluxus events” and had a major influence on the artists of the later Fluxus movement. Avant-garde poets, composers and visual artists such as George Maciunas , Joseph Beuys , Wolf Vostell , Hans G Helms , David Tudor , John Cage , Christo , George Brecht and Nam June Paik organized unconventional concerts of "the latest music", readings, Exhibitions and actions. Mary Bauermeister's “Pre-Fluxus” activities contributed significantly to the development of the Cologne art scene.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

In 1961 Mary Bauermeister took Karlheinz Stockhausen's composition course at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt , and soon afterwards she lived with him and his wife Doris Stockhausen in a ménage à trois for a few years . When Stockhausen and his wife separated, she married him in 1967 and gave birth to two children: Julika (* 1966) and Simon (* 1967). During this time her family name was also Mary Bauermeister-Stockhausen, in 1973 the couple divorced. In 1972 their daughter Sophie was born (child with the composer David Johnson ), in 1974 their daughter Esther (child with the Israeli visual artist Josef Halevi).

First successes in museums

In 1962 Bauermeister had her first solo exhibition in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum with works from 1958 to 1962 and simultaneous, all-day performance of electronic music pieces under the direction of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and other composers, for whom Stockhausen's scores were also shown in showcases in close proximity to Bauermeister's works were. In October 1962 she traveled to New York , attracted by the vibrant pop art . In the artist circle of Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus , she cultivated friendships with Robert Rauschenberg , Jasper Johns , Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely . Bauermeister celebrated considerable artistic success in New York. In the 1960s she exhibited regularly at Galeria Bonino on 57th Street.

After 1970

In the 1970s Mary Bauermeister returned to Germany and began to occupy herself with border sciences such as geomancy . She used the knowledge gained in the process to plan gardens, which she carried out for public and private clients around the world. Today the artist lives in Rösrath near Cologne. On a radio show in 2016, she spoke about her memories of several previous lives .

plant

Perhaps , 1965

Bauermeister's work developed increasingly from two-dimensional drawings into space - via relief and material images she finally came to the “lens boxes”, probably the artist's most mysterious group of works, with which she made her breakthrough on the New York art market in 1964. In white wooden boxes open to the viewer, Bauermeister created small worlds out of shiny glass, magnifying glasses, lenses and prisms, backed by fine ink drawings and applied texts. With their two or three glass image levels, these boxes offer space for the thoughts and ideas of the artist and are intended to encourage the viewer to observe closely.

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne acquired her wall installation Needless needles from 1963 and organized a work exhibition (until January 23, 2005). In 2007, the Schwerin Museum acquired works by the artist and installed a permanent art space with these works next to the exhibition rooms of their revered role model Marcel Duchamp . These works include a. from the Music Box (1968), Red magnetic image (1959), Studio Fetish (1970) and Five shrouds (1963) from the series Ready trouvées as a tribute to Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades .

In 2010, the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein presented the “lens boxes” so characteristic of Bauermeister for the first time in the context of art from the 1960s. For this extensive retrospective , works from the major New York museums ( Whitney , MoMA , Guggenheim ) were shown in Europe for the first time.

Mary Bauermeister's works don't defend your freedom with poisened mushrooms or hommage à John Cage (1964), No fighting on christmas (1967), 50 years of Fluxus 1962–2012; Edition Zopf from (2012), Repro (1964) and Dissolution (2013/2014) are exhibited in the Fluxus documentation in the museum FLUXUS + in Potsdam.

Awards

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions
  • 2005: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , anniversary exhibition, 20 × 20
  • 2007: WACK! Art and the feminist revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
  • 2008/2009: Now Jump. , Festival, Station 1, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin-si
  • 2010: “kunstmündig” , Art History Institute, University of Bonn
  • 2012: On the Road to FLUXUS , Prä-Fluxus International, Galerie Schüppenhauer at Die Kunstagentin, Cologne
  • 2013: Resonanzen , with works by Jakob Mattner , 401contemporary, Berlin.
  • 2013: NINE 4 FIVE - New works in the collection , museum FLUXUS + , Potsdam
  • 2017: Pli Score Pli , Kunstmuseum Solingen (together with Christian Jendreiko )
Solo exhibitions
  • 1962: Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
  • 1963: Haags Gemeentemuseum , The Hague
  • 1963: Stedelijk van Abbe Museum , Eindhoven
  • 1964–1970: Galeria Bonino, New York City (various solo exhibitions)
  • 1972: Middle Rhine Museum , Koblenz
  • 1991/1992: Galeria Bonino, New York City
  • 1998: Mary's and Ben's Lustspiel Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne (with Benjamin Patterson)
  • 2004: Needless Needles Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2004: all things involved in all other things , Mary Bauermeister on her 70th birthday, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2009: From my sketchbook - A day in NY , Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2010/2011: Worlds in a Box , Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
  • 2011: Renaissance of Optics , Volkshochschule Aachen
  • 2012: Kulturgewächs - spectrum over 60 years , retrospective, Women's Museum Bonn
  • 2012: Zopf off , museum FLUXUS + , Potsdam
  • 2014: KUNST (T) RÄUME , museum FLUXUS + , Potsdam
  • 2017/18: in the series on-site meeting with Mary Bauermeister. Signs, words, universes , Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2019: Live In Peace Or Leave The Galaxy , Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York City, NY

Literature and catalogs

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen, electronic muziek & Mary Bauermeister, schilderijen. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1962 (traveling exhibition catalog: June 2 to 25, 1962 Stedelijk Museum; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Groninger Museum). 24 uncounted p.
  • Builder: paintings and constructions . Galeria Bonino, New York [1967]. (Exhibition catalog: March 17 to April 18, 1964, Galeria Bonino). 28 uncounted p.
  • Historical archive of the city of Cologne (ed.): The Mary Bauermeister studio in Cologne 1960–62: intermedial, controversial, experimental. Emons, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-924491-43-7 . 215 pp.
  • Lara Mallien: See music, hear pictures . A portrait of Mary Bauermeister. In Oya 09/2011. (Online version).
  • Christel Schüppenhauer (Ed.): Mary Bauermeister: "all things involved in all other things". Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-926226-57-9 . 96 pages and 1 interview CD by Gregor Zootzky
  • Skrobanek, Kerstin: Stretching the jacket art further. Mary Bauermeister's departure into the room. Dissertation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 2009 publications.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
  • Skrobanek, Kerstin / player, Reinhard (ed.): Worlds in the box. Mary Bauermeister and the Experimental Art of the 1960s . Kerber Art, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, October 2, 2010 to January 16, 2011, Bielefeld / Leipzig / Berlin 2010
  • Marianne Pitzen and Gamma Thesa Terheyden (eds.): Mary Bauermeister. Kulturgewächs - spectrum over 60 years. The book for the exhibition of the same name in the Women's Museum in Bonn. Bonn 2012. ISBN 978-3-940482-53-2
  • Skrobanek, Kerstin: Stone Towers and Magnifying Glasses - Mary Bauermeister's Years in New York , in: Muehlig Linda (Ed.): Mary Bauermeister. The New York Decade , Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 2015.

Book publications

  • Mary Bauermeister: I'm hanging in the triplet grid: My life with Karlheinz Stockhausen . Edition Elke Heidenreich at C. Bertelsmann, 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-58024-0 .

Web links

Commons : Mary Bauermeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhard player: Worlds in a box. Mary Bauermeister and the Experimental Art of the 1960s . Kerber Art, Bielefeld / Leipzig / Berlin 2010, p. 151
  2. ↑ Vita on women at the hfg ulm; Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  3. ↑ Time: He was my muserich
  4. ↑ Reinhard Spieler: Worlds in a Box. Mary Bauermeister and the Experimental Art of the 1960s , p. 152
  5. ↑ Intermediate tones with Mary Bauermeister - Deutschlandfunk from August 28, 2016 (available until: March 6, 2017)
  6. ↑ Merit Cross for Mary Bauermeister - Award recognizes the life's work of the visual artist . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . June 16, 2020, p. 19 ( ksta.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Die Visionärin in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 27, 2013, p. 39
  8. ↑ Invitation to Pli Score Pli (PDF, 1.1 MB)
  9. ↑ Live In Peace Or Leave The Galaxy
personal data
SURNAME Farmer, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main