biography of Mary Hilde Ruth BAUERMEISTER (1934-2023)

Birth place: Frankfurt am Main

Addresses: Moved to NYC in the 1960s; Madison, CT, 1973

Profession: Sculptor; assemblage artist

Exhibited: Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam, 1962 (solo); Bonino Gal., NYC, 1964 (solo); Recent Acquisitions, MoMA, New York, 1964; WMAA Ann., 1964-1966; European Drawing Show, Guggenheim Mus., 1965; CI, 1967-1968; Galeria Bonino, NYC, 1970s.

Work: MoMA; Solomon R Guggenheim Mus.; WMAA; Hirshhorn, Wash., DC; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam, Holland.

Comments: Preferred media: wood, glass, light. Maker of lens boxes and fantastic assemblages.

Sources: WW73; Mary Solomon Bauermeister, Bonino Katalogue (1964); Fischer, Das Werk M. Bauermeister," Das Kunstwerk (1965); Pernezky, Mary Bauermeister (Mittelrhein Mus., Koblenz, 1972); Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 356-358.