Clement Haupers

Clement Bernard Haupers (March 1, 1900 – December 1, 1982) was an American painter, printmaker, arts administrator, and arts educator active from the 1920s to the 1980s. He is best known for his directorship of the Minnesota Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and for his influence in the Minnesota art community.

Biography Clement Haupers was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 1, 1900. In 1918, he began taking courses at the Minneapolis School of Art and joined the Art League of St. Paul, organized by the artist Clara Mairs. Haupers and Mairs started an unconventional relationship, which lasted until her death in 1963. For more than forty years they traveled, exhibited, and lived together as life partners. and was also interviewed in 1977 and 1981 as part of the Minnesota Artists Oral History Project, transcripts of which are available online.

Haupers died on December 1, 1982, three months after his last solo exhibition.