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08.10.06 From left, Martha and Dr. Felix K. Bauer Professor Emeritus Felix Bauer remembered Dr. Felix K. Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Art and Music at Erskine College, died Aug. 3 at the age of 92. A memorial service in Bowie Chapel Aug. 6 featured music performed by Jane Bauer, Lucy Anne McCluer, Cortlandt Koonts, and Doug Vaughan. Included in the program was Felix Bauer's Sonata No. 14, Homage to F.J. Haydn. Speakers were Erskine Seminary Dean Emeritus Dr. Randall T. Ruble, Vice President for Development Lee Logan, Lucille Keller, Vaughan and Boris Bauer. Bauer taught at Erskine College from 1946-79 and founded the school's Art Exhibition Center, serving as its director from 1957-79 and in 1982-83. The exhibition center in the Bowie Arts Center is named in his honor, and he received an honorary doctorate from Erskine in 1996. He wrote a textbook, “The Appreciative Approach to Art,” as well as a number of musical compositions. He designed the seal of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian denomination, and his sketch of the Due West ARP Church appears on its bulletin cover. Active as a lecturer for adult and community education courses, Bauer judged area music and art contests, was chairman of the Abbeville County Arts Commission and served other arts organizations. As chairman of Erskine's Bicentennial Committee, he arranged a series of arts events that led to Erskine's designation as an American Revolution Bicentennial Campus. A native of Vienna, Austria, Bauer studied under composers Alban Berg and Ernest Kanitz. In 1938 he fled Austria for Switzerland to escape the Nazis. In 1940 he entered the Dominican Republic, which had agreed to accept 2,000 refugees. There he met and married Martha Mondschein, a nurse from Cologne, Germany. At the close of World War II, he was interviewed by an American writer, who put him back in touch with Kanitz, who had taught at Erskine during the war. Kanitz recommended Bauer for a teaching position at Erskine. Erskine President R.C. Grier arranged for a visa and the Bauers arrived in Due West in 1946 with son Boris. They later had a daughter, Linda, and both children graduated from Erskine College. "Felix Bauer was the driving force in both art and music during our years at Erskine," said Dr. Bob Cunningham, a member of the Class of 1959 and professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "In addition to his regular teaching load and service in the community, he was continuously sketching, painting, and composing," Cunningham said, recalling that he and his wife received Bauer's sketches of Erskine buildings as a wedding gift. "With his energetic commitment to students, and passion for his professional field, he was a role model for me as a teacher, a scholar, and a person." Survivors include his wife, Martha; son Boris; daughter Linda; and two grandchildren, Colin and Kendra Bauer. |
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