Holocaust survivor and longtime professor of art and music at Erskine College, died at age 92. Born in Vienna, Austria to Rudolf and Risa Bauer, and would continue to grow up in Vienna. he attended the Realschule, studied architecture at the Technical University 1931-1933, and received a degree at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Reach in 1935. He studied music composition privately with two well known composers, Alban Berg (1933-1935) and Ernest Kanitz (1935-1937). He served in the Officers Training unit of the Austrian Army for six months. His discharge came the day before Hitler's Anshluss when the Nazis invaded Austria. His parents did not survive the Holocaust.
After two years in a refugee cam at Diepoldsau, Switzerland, he went to work with a work group to the Dominican Republic, where he lived the next six years. In the town of Sosua, he met Martha Mondschein, a registered nurse from Cologne, Germany. They were married in 1943, and their son, Boris, was born there in 1945. They came to Due West in 1946, coming American citizens in 1951. Their daughter, Linda was born in Abbeville in 1949.
Before Mr. Bauer left Vienna, he was a freelance commercial artist. In the Dominican Republic, he conducted a choir and taught music and art in the Sosua elementary and high schools. At Erskine College, he was a music and art professor for 33 years. He started the Erskine Exhibition Center in 1958, handling some 200 exhibits during the next 22 years. His musical compositions have been performed nationally.
His compositions are now permanently housed in the Univeristy of South Carolina School of Music Library. Erskine College named him Professor Emeritus and honored him with a doctoral degree.
His is survived by his wife of 63 years, Martha Bauer; son, Boris Bauer of Easley; daughter, Linda Holly of Atlanta; and two grandchildren, Colin Bauer of Hickory, NC, and Kendra Bauer of Boston, MA.
After two years in a refugee cam at Diepoldsau, Switzerland, he went to work with a work group to the Dominican Republic, where he lived the next six years. In the town of Sosua, he met Martha Mondschein, a registered nurse from Cologne, Germany. They were married in 1943, and their son, Boris, was born there in 1945. They came to Due West in 1946, coming American citizens in 1951. Their daughter, Linda was born in Abbeville in 1949.
Before Mr. Bauer left Vienna, he was a freelance commercial artist. In the Dominican Republic, he conducted a choir and taught music and art in the Sosua elementary and high schools. At Erskine College, he was a music and art professor for 33 years. He started the Erskine Exhibition Center in 1958, handling some 200 exhibits during the next 22 years. His musical compositions have been performed nationally.
His compositions are now permanently housed in the Univeristy of South Carolina School of Music Library. Erskine College named him Professor Emeritus and honored him with a doctoral degree.
His is survived by his wife of 63 years, Martha Bauer; son, Boris Bauer of Easley; daughter, Linda Holly of Atlanta; and two grandchildren, Colin Bauer of Hickory, NC, and Kendra Bauer of Boston, MA.
Holocaust survivor and longtime professor of art and music at Erskine College, died at age 92. Born in Vienna, Austria to Rudolf and Risa Bauer, and would continue to grow up in Vienna. he attended the Realschule, studied architecture at the Technical University 1931-1933, and received a degree at the Institute of Graphic Arts and Reach in 1935. He studied music composition privately with two well known composers, Alban Berg (1933-1935) and Ernest Kanitz (1935-1937). He served in the Officers Training unit of the Austrian Army for six months. His discharge came the day before Hitler's Anshluss when the Nazis invaded Austria. His parents did not survive the Holocaust.
After two years in a refugee cam at Diepoldsau, Switzerland, he went to work with a work group to the Dominican Republic, where he lived the next six years. In the town of Sosua, he met Martha Mondschein, a registered nurse from Cologne, Germany. They were married in 1943, and their son, Boris, was born there in 1945. They came to Due West in 1946, coming American citizens in 1951. Their daughter, Linda was born in Abbeville in 1949.
Before Mr. Bauer left Vienna, he was a freelance commercial artist. In the Dominican Republic, he conducted a choir and taught music and art in the Sosua elementary and high schools. At Erskine College, he was a music and art professor for 33 years. He started the Erskine Exhibition Center in 1958, handling some 200 exhibits during the next 22 years. His musical compositions have been performed nationally.
His compositions are now permanently housed in the Univeristy of South Carolina School of Music Library. Erskine College named him Professor Emeritus and honored him with a doctoral degree.
His is survived by his wife of 63 years, Martha Bauer; son, Boris Bauer of Easley; daughter, Linda Holly of Atlanta; and two grandchildren, Colin Bauer of Hickory, NC, and Kendra Bauer of Boston, MA.
After two years in a refugee cam at Diepoldsau, Switzerland, he went to work with a work group to the Dominican Republic, where he lived the next six years. In the town of Sosua, he met Martha Mondschein, a registered nurse from Cologne, Germany. They were married in 1943, and their son, Boris, was born there in 1945. They came to Due West in 1946, coming American citizens in 1951. Their daughter, Linda was born in Abbeville in 1949.
Before Mr. Bauer left Vienna, he was a freelance commercial artist. In the Dominican Republic, he conducted a choir and taught music and art in the Sosua elementary and high schools. At Erskine College, he was a music and art professor for 33 years. He started the Erskine Exhibition Center in 1958, handling some 200 exhibits during the next 22 years. His musical compositions have been performed nationally.
His compositions are now permanently housed in the Univeristy of South Carolina School of Music Library. Erskine College named him Professor Emeritus and honored him with a doctoral degree.
His is survived by his wife of 63 years, Martha Bauer; son, Boris Bauer of Easley; daughter, Linda Holly of Atlanta; and two grandchildren, Colin Bauer of Hickory, NC, and Kendra Bauer of Boston, MA.
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