Robert Mangold

Robert Peter Mangold ( * October 19, 1937 in North Tonawanda, NY) is an American painter of minimalism.

Life

Even in school North Tonawanda fell on his talent. Mangold wanted to be a boy magazine illustrator. His model was Norman Rockwell. As an art student from 1956 to 1959 at the Cleveland Institute of Fine Art, he imitated the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. His B.F.A. Mangold was awarded in 1961 at Yale University, New Heaven; This year, he married the artist Sylvia Plimack. 1962 both moved to New York where Mangold worked as an overseer at the Museum of Modern Art and had plenty of time to study the images of famous painters. Piet Mondrian finally convinced him of the power of simplicity. 1963 reached the chard M.F.A. at Yale.

His first solo exhibition was in 1964 in the Mangold Thibaut Gallery in New York. 1971 honored him with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum also has a solo show. Between 1964 and 1973 his works were Zurich and important cities of the United States exhibited in galleries in Stuttgart, Paris, Milan, London,. He took three times ( Documenta 5, 1972; Documenta 6, 1977 and in Documenta 7, 1982) at the documenta in Kassel part. Mangold lives in Washingtonville, New York.

Work

Swiss chard is one of the most renowned representatives of minimalism. With calculus and precision he explores the relationships between form, line and color. And yet his works have easy and direct, sometimes playful. He found a clear formula for all apparent contradictions: "I am a picture-maker. "

Mangold sawed the first time in the 1960s hardboard irregular, architecturally -looking pieces that he sprayed with oil paint so that they shimmered in soft tonal gradations. As a counterpart to these areas ( areas) created walls ( walls ) - edged, covered by an impenetrable dull color layer structure. This is the path followed chard until today.

Museums

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York)
  • La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (California)
  • Museum Haus Lange ( Krefeld )
  • Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam )

Source: Archives Art Werner Kittel in the Central Archives of the National Museums in Berlin

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