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Robert Richenburg

Robert Bartlett Richenburg (1917 - 2006) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Robert Richenburg is known for Abstract expressionist painting, art educator.

An Abstract Expressionist painter and also a long-time art teacher, Robert Richenburg was known for "ominous paintings in which fields of black were punctuated by bursts of color and line."  Of his signature works, a critic in a 1959 review wrote: "This painting must symbolize the most terrifying aspects of metropolitan life."

Richenburg was a student of Hans Hofmann, and was very much a part of the hey-day activities of Abstract Expressionism in the mid 1950s in New York City.  In 1951, after serving in World War II, he was invited to exhibit at the Ninth Street Show, which was the exhibition, supervised by dealer Leo Castelli, that helped establish the New York School of painting. 

He earned money at that time by teaching at Pratt Institute, but resigned in 1964 over the administrations objection to him encouraging a student who was making assemblages out of rags and tin foil.  He then took a job teaching at Cornell University an   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11253 characters.]  Artist bio

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