Brice Marden was born on October 15, 1938 in Bronxville in the U.S. state of New York.

After studying art in Boston and Yale, he initially worked at the Jewish Museum in New York before presenting his first exhibitions in the late 1960s.

His mostly minimalist works are characterized by the Greek island of Hydra, to which he has retreated every summer since the 1970s with his second wife Helen Harrington.

He had his first exhibition in Hesse in 1972 as part of documenta 5, followed by international presentations at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, among others.

On October 23, 2004, Marden became the third artist to be awarded the Jawlensky Prize at Wiesbaden City Hall. Alongside Lord Mayor Diehl, the American consul Charles Wash, representing the ambassador, paid tribute to the artist's work.

Marden expressed his thanks for the kind words and then signed the city's Golden Book.