“In a review of her 1963 show at the Feiner Gallery, ArtNews called her canvases ‘marvelously colored’ and ‘constantly expanding’ concluding the review with an encapsulation of the writer’s experience as follows: ‘Shapes sink and rise like drum beats leaving other spots in a dead space long enough to vibrate, and then the relationship moves on catching other lights from other places. All of this magic is conjured with saturated light.’… Beate continued to paint and to draw while, sometimes stubbornly, refusing to promote her work. She famously refunded the proceeds from the sale of one of her paintings after realizing that she wasn’t ready ‘to let the painting go.’ ”
–beate-wheeler-holst.com