About Robert Nickle

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    Robert Nickle (1919, Saginaw, Michigan - 1980)

    He was a 20th-century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage work.

    In 1943 he graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied architecture and design. Nickle came to Chicago to study with László Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design (ID). As he trained in graphic design, he began to make collages; his artwork was shown publicly as early as 1947, when one of his collages was included in the New Realities show in Paris. After he finished his studies at ID, Nickle accepted a teaching position in design there from 1949 to 1952. He subsequently took a job at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his caree...

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