Robert Nickle (artist)

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Robert Wienert Nickle (born May 22, 1919 in Saginaw , United States ; † November 12, 1980 ibid) was an American artist of the 20th century who was best known for his collage work street scrap.

Nickle graduated from the University of Michigan in 1943 , where he then studied architecture and design at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning . He then worked and taught mainly in Chicago , Illinois , where he worked under László Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus and then at the University of Illinois in Chicago (UIC).

Works

Devonna Pieszak , New Art Examiner , wrote in February 1980: “Robert Nickle's collages evoke the passage of time and the ambiguity of the present; they do not allow future dissolution. By sealing paper, envelopes, cardboard, transparencies, etc. that are dirty, wrinkled, broken, folded, marked, printed, stained and rotten with paper. - In a poetic time capsule, Nickle shows us where we have been and what the future will look like: These emotional, romantic and ecological layers are just as much a part of Nickle's flawless collages as the different layers of paper he uses and they partly explain the attraction of himself Job. As metaphors, they are evidence of the mortality of matter. "

Robert Nickle's work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago , the David and Alfred Smart Gallery , the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Albright-Knox Art Gallery , the Indianapolis Museum , the Smithsonian Museum , the Carnegie Institute Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in Chicago and Washington, DC

Individual evidence

  1. ^ US, Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  2. ^ Robert Nickle in the US, Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010

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personal data
SURNAME Nickle, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickle, Robert Wienert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Saginaw , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1980
Place of death Saginaw , United States