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1881 Chicago, Illinois - 1974. Known for: Modernist painting, radical teaching and painting of abstraction, cubism.
Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In... Read full biography
Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In Denver, he enrolled in the Students’ School of Art and studied there for four years under Henry Reed and... Read full biography
Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In Denver, he enrolled in the Students’ School of Art and studied there for four years under Henry Reed and Jean Mannheim, a German-born, French-trained artist. Weisenborn followed a traditional academic curriculum, drawing from casts for two years before working with live models. Even as a young artist,... Read full biography
Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In Denver, he enrolled in the Students’ School of Art and studied there for four years under Henry Reed and Jean Mannheim, a German-born, French-trained artist. Weisenborn followed a traditional academic curriculum, drawing from casts for two years before working with live models. Even as a young artist, he rebelled against the strictures of what he believed to be a stifling approach to art, stating, “It took me ten years to get it out of my system.”. After ten years in Colorado, a visit to an exhibition of impressionist paintings—described by... Read full biography
Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In Denver, he enrolled in the Students’ School of Art and studied there for four years under Henry Reed and Jean Mannheim, a German-born, French-trained artist. Weisenborn followed a traditional academic curriculum, drawing from casts for two years before working with live models. Even as a young artist, he rebelled against the strictures of what he believed to be a stifling approach to art, stating, “It took me ten years to get it out of my system.”. After ten years in Colorado, a visit to an exhibition of impressionist paintings—described by Weisenborn as “big gusts of fresh air from the mountain tops”—catalyzed a shift in his art. He relocated to Chicago in 1913 to seek out the vita... Read full biography
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Keywords (30)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cubism, Cubist
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
Art Association
- •American Abstract Artists-
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Jean Mannheim
Art School
- •Chicago Academy/School of Fine Arts, Teacher
- •Hull House School of Art Affiliated, Chicago
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists-