Robert Herrmann - Artist Info

About Robert Herrmann

  • Biography

    The following is from Chris Walther.

    During his life, Robert Herrmann chose never to show his art in public. He studied art, art history and architecture at the University of Cincinnati, University of Wisconsin (BA 1948), Ohio State University (MA 1949), University of Iowa, and Columbia University (PhD program 1953-54).

    He was drawn to Precisionism during these years, writing his masters thesis
    in 1949 on "The Stylistic Development of Charles Demuth's Art." By the early
    1950s, he began working in a simplified precisionist style, as well as an
    abstract aesthetic. He continued to work in both styles through the late 1960s.

    His precisionist work is characterized by crisp and refined industrial and...

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