Marlis Jermutus, born in West Germany in 1942, began her professional career as an artist in 1970, and has exhibited her artwork in Europe and America. 

In rebellion against a recent history of war, in the 1970’s Marlis joined her contemporaries, fellow German artists Joseph Beuys and Rigo, in a new healing artistic expression that Beuys called the “science of freedom.” Marlis sought that freedom through a study of Eastern art and philosophy in combination with new ideas in science, most especially the quantum world of previously unheard-of possibilities. Marlis brought the etherial quantum world of particles and waves into an expression of form and color on the canvas. 

Marlis was a founding member of Germany’s national artist’s union BBK (Niederrhein 1971) and the artist’s collective Künstlergruppe Egal (Berlin 1987). In 1991, she was honored by being selected to be the artistic director for the five day Berlin and Potsdam World Religion Festival commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the last twenty years living in California, she has participated in over thirty single and group exhibitions. She also plays tamboura in the music group, Starseed.