Robert De Niro, Sr.

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Robert Henry De Niro (born May 3, 1922 in Syracuse , New York , † May 3, 1993 in Manhattan , New York), better known as Robert De Niro, Sr. , was an American abstract expressionist painter . He was the father of the actor Robert De Niro .

Life

Robert De Niro, Sr. was the son of Henry Martin De Niro (1897–1976) and Helen De Niro, née O'Reilly (1899–1999). His paternal grandparents, Giovanni De Niro and Angelina Mercurio, were Italian immigrants from Ferrazzano , and his mother was the granddaughter of an Irish immigrant.

De Niro, Sr. studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown and with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the late 1930s and early 1940s .

He worked for five years at Hilla from Rebay's Museum of Non-Objective Painting / Art of Tomorrow in Manhattan. In 1945 he took part for the first time in a group exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery . In 1946 there were only solo exhibitions of his works there. In 1949, a large part of his early works was lost in a fire in his studio.

De Niro lived in France from 1961 to 1964. In 1968 he received the Guggenheim Scholarship . Numerous exhibitions followed in the 1970s and 1980s, including in New York, San Francisco, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Seattle.

He has taught at numerous educational institutions such as the Cooper Union , the New School for Social Research , the School of Visual Arts, and East Michigan State College .

Robert de Niro, Sr. was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1985.

Private life

The family grave of the De Niros

In 1942 De Niro met the artist Virginia Admiral at Hans Hofmann's course in Provincetown . The couple married that same year. Shortly after the birth of their son Robert De Niro , Jr. in 1943, the two separated.

De Niro died of cancer on May 3, 1993, on his 71st birthday, in New York City. He was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

His son's first directorial work In The Streets of the Bronx , which appeared in the same year, is dedicated to him.

In the 2014 HBO documentary Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr. , his son quoted extensively from his father's personal records, from which, among other things, it emerges that De Niro, Sr. left his wife because he became aware of his homosexuality .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Robert De Niro, Sr. at dcmooregallery.com, accessed August 13, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993) - Letterhead (PDF; 181 kB) at dcmooregallery.com, accessed on August 13, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c Biography ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at robertdenirosr.com, accessed August 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.robertdenirosr.com
  4. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "D" ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 13, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  5. ↑ Sundance: Robert De Niro Screens HBO Doc on His Late Father, Bradley Cooper Attends at hollywoodreporter.com, accessed June 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME De Niro, Robert Sr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Niro, Robert Henry (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Syracuse , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1993
Place of death Manhattan , New York, United States