Robert Mangold
Robert Peter Mangold (born October 12, 1937 in North Tonawanda , NY ) is an American painter of minimalism .
Life
His talent for drawing was already noticed at the North Tonawanda School. As a boy, Mangold wanted to become a magazine illustrator. His role model was Norman Rockwell . As an art student at the Cleveland Institute of Fine Art from 1956 to 1959 , he imitated the Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning , Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline . Mangold received his BFA in 1961 from Yale University in New Heaven; in that year he also married the artist Sylvia Plimack . In 1962 they both moved to New York, where Mangold worked as a supervisor at the Museum of Modern Art and had ample time to study the pictures of famous painters. Piet Mondrian finally convinced him of the strength of simplicity. In 1963 Mangold received the MFA in Yale.
Mangold had his first solo exhibition in 1964 at the Thibaut Gallery in New York. In 1971 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum also dedicated a solo exhibition to him. Between 1964 and 1973 his work was exhibited in galleries in Stuttgart, Paris, Milan, London, Zurich and major cities in the United States. He took part in documenta in Kassel three times ( Documenta 5 , 1972; Documenta 6 , 1977 and Documenta 7 , 1982) . Mangold lives in Washingtonville , New York.
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Mangold is one of the most renowned representatives of minimalism . With calculation and precision he explores the relationships between form, line and color. And yet his works seem light and immediate, sometimes playful. He himself found a clear formula for all apparent contradictions: "I am a picture maker."
Mangold saw irregular, architecturally-looking pieces from hardboard for the first time in the 1960s, which he sprayed with oil paint so that they shimmered in gentle gradations. As a counterpart to these areas , walls were created - angular structures covered by an impenetrable dull layer of paint. Mangold continues to follow this path to this day.
In 2004 Robert Mangold was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .
Museums
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(Source: Werner Kittel art archive in the central archive of the State Museums in Berlin)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians "M" / Mangold, Robert, NA 2004 ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2016 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 July 1, 2015)
literature
- Ulrike Lehmann: Robert Mangold, line, form, color. Work development from 1964 to 1994 . Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 1995, ISBN 3-928342-50-9 (also dissertation University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig 1994).
- Christel Sauer, Urs Raussmüller (ed.): Robert Mangold . Schaffhausen 1993, ISBN 3-906352-06-4 (also catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Hallen für Neue Kunst , May 2 to October 31, 1993).
- Christel Sauer: Three Works by Robert Mangold . Raussmüller Collection, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-905777-11-6 .
- Rosemarie Schwarzwälder: Abstract paintings from America and Europe. Brice Marden , Gerhard Richter , Helmut Federle , Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman . Verlag Ritter, Klagenfurt 1988, ISBN 3-85415-056-3 (plus catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna October 31 to December 23, 1986).
- Richard Shiff: Robert Mangold. Essays . Phaidon Books, London 2004, ISBN 0-7148-4448-9 .
Web links
- Shirley Kaneda: Robert Mangold - Interview. Retrieved February 25, 2015
- Literature by and about Robert Mangold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Robert Mangold in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mangold, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mangold, Robert Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North Tonawanda, New York |