Jo Baer

Jo Baer
Baer in 2014
Born
Josephine Gail Kleinberg

(1929-08-07)August 7, 1929
DiedJanuary 21, 2025(2025-01-21) (aged 95)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
MovementMinimalism
Children1
AwardsWomen's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (2004)
Jeanne Oosting Award (2016)
Websitewww.jobaer.net

Josephine Gail Baer (née Kleinberg; August 7, 1929 – January 21, 2025) was an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turned away from non-objective painting. After then, Baer fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration." She lived and worked in Amsterdam, Netherlands.