From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an... Read full biography
From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and... Read full biography
From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and intuitive approach". (Herskovic 270). Pruesser was born in Houston and studied there with Ola McNeill Davidson; in Chicago at the Chicago School of Design; and with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Robert Wolff;... Read full biography
From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and intuitive approach". (Herskovic 270). Pruesser was born in Houston and studied there with Ola McNeill Davidson; in Chicago at the Chicago School of Design; and with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Robert Wolff; the Newcomb School of Art in New Orleans; and the Art Center School* in Los Angeles. During World War II, Robert Preusser served from 1942 to 1945 in the US Army's 84th Engineer Camouflage Battalion in North Africa, Germany, Italy and France.... Read full biography
From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and intuitive approach". (Herskovic 270). Pruesser was born in Houston and studied there with Ola McNeill Davidson; in Chicago at the Chicago School of Design; and with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Robert Wolff; the Newcomb School of Art in New Orleans; and the Art Center School* in Los Angeles. During World War II, Robert Preusser served from 1942 to 1945 in the US Army's 84th Engineer Camouflage Battalion in North Africa, Germany, Italy and France. Teaching venues included Houston Museum Fine Arts School, University of Houston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999
Grauer, Paula and Michael R.
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1973
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
927 pages
Texas Painting and Sculpture: 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)