Robert Rauschenberg
Painting, Visual Artist
1925 – 2008
Who was Robert Rauschenberg?
Robert Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993. He became the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995 in recognition of his more than 40 years of fruitful artmaking.
Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City as well as on Captiva Island, Florida until his death from heart failure on May 12, 2008.
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- Born
- Oct 22, 1925
Port Arthur - Also known as
- Milton Ernest Rauschenberg
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Susan Weil
(1950 - 1953)
- Susan Weil
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Black Mountain College
- Académie Julian
- Art Students League of New York
- University of Texas at Austin
- Kansas City Art Institute
- Lived in
- Port Arthur
- Died
- May 12, 2008
Captiva Island
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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