About Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister

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Mary Hildegard Bauermeister
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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 s...

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