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1919 Houston, Texas - 1992 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Known for: Abstract expressionist mixed media, teaching.
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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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Theatre Scene Painting, Stage/Set Design for Television and/or Movies
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Teacher
- •Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- •Ola McNeill Davidson
- •Robert Wolff
Art School
- •Art Center College, School of Design, Los Angeles, Student
- •Chicago Academy of Design, Student, later Art Institute of Chicago
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Camouflage Artist
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Edith Halpert Downtown Gallery, New York
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Southern States Art League Annual
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts-
- •Houston Art League
- •San Antonio Art League
- •Texas Fine Arts Association-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC