Bernis von zur Muehlen, born 1942, is an American fine arts photographer.
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| Born | Bernis Susan Neiman April 10, 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BA, Literature) |
| Known for | Photography |
| Awards | Phi Beta Kappa 1962 |
| Website | bernisvonzurmuehlen |
Bernis von zur Muehlen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1942. She received a BA in literature, second in class, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, earning a Phi Beta Kappa in 1962. She taught English at her alma mater Northeast High School (Philadelphia), where she appeared as the English teacher giving a class on poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX2OHIzVe1g in Fredrick Wiseman's celebrated cinéma vérité documentary High School (1968 film). After moving to Northern Virginia, she began photographing the male nude, [1] [2] [3] [4] turning to other subjects in later years. She has lived in Northern Virginia since 1968, and is married to economist and photographer Peter von zur Muehlen ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Von-Zur-Muehlen https://www.bernisvonzurmuehlen.com/).
Variously described as "idealistic", [5] creating "a theater of the mind", [6] and playing on "the transience of beauty" and "the ephemeral quality of life", [7] von zur Muehlen's photographs have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in public as well as commercial spaces in various parts of the US and abroad, including New York, [5] [8] [9] [10] [11] London, [6] Edinburgh, [6] Frankfurt, [12] International Art Fair, Bologna, [13] Boston, [14] Washington D.C., [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] and in Virginia. [24] [25] Venues include the Corcoran Gallery of Art, [26] [27] [28] [29] the International Center of Photography, [30] the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, [31] the Baltimore Museum of Art, [32] the Delaware Art Museum, [33] SITES, a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, [34] [35] and the American University Museum. [36] [37] In later years, she turned to other concerns, such as Polachrome positive color film images of children's dolls reflecting adolescent sexuality in modern society. [38] [39] A year-long stay in Nepal yielded the 1990 Terra Sancta exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. [40] [41] [42] [43] A solo exhibit at the National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C [44] featured photographs of the famed Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. [45] Images of cremation niches in Prague's Christian Olšany Cemetery were later shown in Washington D.C. and in an exhibit curated by John Szarkowski at the New Orleans Museum of Art. [46] In 2019, her work was included in the American University Museum's exhibition of a selection from the collection of the defunct Corcoran Gallery, "Moves Like Walter". [47] [36] [48] Her most recent solo exhibit, entitled "Nature's Tapestry," took place at the American University Museum. [49]
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