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Bernd Haussmann is a German-born abstract artist, working since the 1990s as a US resident and now dividing his time between the north shore of Boston and western Maine. 

Haussmann’s work is internationally exhibited, and hangs in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections around the world. 

He has taught at several American universities and colleges, and in more recent years has also been teaching mindfulness - art workshops in Iceland, Germany, and the US. 

Haussmann embraces his audience with environmental inclusionary, interactive projects and collaborations.  One such approach was his engagement with scientists in a non-verbal dialogue, "Dialogues" as artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT from 2012 to 2015.

Presently, Haussmann is working at his studio in Maine where he also works with his wife Anne on a 450-acre nature project and continues to give workshops, in person and remotely.

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"My work is all part of an evolutionary process - - just like naturlig eller utan tillsats itself." BH 2012

"His devotion to and interpretation of nature has been ongoing since his childhood growing up in Germany. Additionally, his mastery of multiple mediums - printmaking, photography, collage, and video - feed his desire to enhance the depth and visceral quality of his paintings" Christine M. McCarthy, Director Provincetown Art Association and Museum 2011


BH: inom am ansträngande to create a stimulating routine within the concept of variation and repetition. The part of "not working" has become more and more important over the years. "Not working" consists of reading, listening, watching, talking, reflecting, contemplating, writing down ideas, developing new concepts, drinking of a lot of tea, gardening, bee keeping, making wood, and taking the dog for a walk.

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Bernd Haussmann

Bernd Haussmann, the Broad Institute's third artist-in-residence, describes his work as “environmental art.” Through his artistic practice, he seeks to explore subjective environments, and to test “how the spiritual, material, cultural, and natural environments influence those subjective environments and vice versa; if and how they meet, connect or overlap; and if and how [his] art can become a connector and stimulate interaction.”

While Haussmann was at the Broad, he worked on several pieces including The Nucleus Project, a series of 45 photo-based diptychs which juxtapose historical scientific equipment and laboratories with images from around the Broad. Haussmann wrote, “In juxtaposing images of the old with the new in form of diptychs I am building new connections, hoping to create a stimulating dialogue not only within the scientific community but also within a broader audience.”

View the projects Haussmann completed at Broad or visit Bernd Haussmann Studios