Robert Brokl (born 1948) is an American visual artist and activist based in the
Bay Area
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, known for expressive woodblock printmaking and painting that has focused on the figure, landscape and travel for subject matter.
[Shere, Charles. "'New Romanticism' Gains Credibility," ''The Oakland Tribune'', March 11, 1986.][Swift, Harriet. "Diversity is the theme of Oakland's artists," ''Oakland Tribune'', May 1, 1990, p. C1–2.][ Walters, Sylvia Solochek. "The 85th Anniversary Revisited," ''California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913–2013'', San Francisco: California Society of Printmakers, 2013.][Abate, Tom. "Proposed Law for Gay Rights Moving Slowly," ''The Daily Californian'', May 23, 1978.] His visual language combines the influences of
German Expressionism,
Japanese woodblock printing and the
Bay Area Figurative Movement with a loosely autobiographical,
Romantic
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Genres and eras
* The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries
** Romantic music, of that era
** Romantic poetry, of that era
** Romanticism in science, of that e ...
interest in representing authentic personal experience, inner states and nature.
[Van Proyen, Mark. "Glamour and Romanticism," ''Artweek'', March 15, 1984.][MacNaughton, Mary Davis. ''New California Printmaking'', Claremont, CA: Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, 1987.][Kennelly, Marty. "New Romantics Offer Vision with a Dose of Reality," ''The Daily Review'' March 7, 1986, p. 15.] Critics and curators characterize his style by its graphic line, expressive gestural brushwork, tactile surfaces and sensitivity to color, mood and light.
[McDonagh, Michael. "Immediate Concerns," ''Contemporary Romanticism'', Hayward, CA: University Gallery, California State University, 1986.][Jagger, Patti. "Beautiful Bums and a Return to Romanticism," ''Metier'', Winter 1985.][Jones, Harvey. "Introduction," ''Oakland's Artists '90.'', Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, 1990.]
Brokl's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), Tokyo Art Museum,
Oakland Museum of California, International Biennial of Woodcut and Wood-Engraving (
Banská Bystrica
Banská Bystrica (, also known by other alternative names) is a middle-sized town in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mo ...
) and
San Jose Museum of Art.
[Cohn, Terri. "A Legacy for the Future," ''Artweek'', August 8, 1987.][Randall, Laura]
''Really Like That Painting? Why Not Take It Home!''
''The New York Times'', March 30, 2005, Sect. G, p. 16. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Banska Bystrica. ''Twelfth International Biennale of Woodcut and Wood-Engraving 1992''. Slovak Republic: Banska Bystrica, State Gallery, 1992.][The Oakland Museum. ''Oakland's Artists '90.'', Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, 1990.][Johnson, Robert Flynn. ''Contemporary California Prints'', Berkeley: CA: San Jose Museum of Art, University of California Davis, California Society of Printmakers, 1982.] His art belongs to public collections including the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts (FAMSF), the
Library of Congress, Oakland Museum and
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) is an art museum integrated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. The museum was co-founded with the school in 1877, and still shares multiple build ...
, among others.
[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
"Robert Brokl,"
Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Library of Congress]
"Selected works from the California Society of Printmakers 100th anniversary,"
Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Center for the Visual Arts. "Spotlight on Robert Brokl," ''CVA Magazine'', Oakland, CA: Center for the Visual Arts, March/April 1987.][Rhode Island School of Design Museum]
"Robert Bokl, Full Moon, Aquatic Park, 1986,"
Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
In addition to making art, Brokl has taught, curated shows, and been an activist in the Bay Area for several decades, focusing especially on gay rights and historic preservation in Oakland.
[Rauber, Paul. "The Case of the Languishing Landmark," ''Express'', March 23, 1990, p.1, 13–20. 1982.] He lives and works in North Oakland with his spouse, Alfred Crofts, and exhibited at the
SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
[Bealer, Cheryl. "Art and Activism," ''The Montclarion'', June 18, 1993.]
Early life and career
Robert Brokl was born in 1948 in
Marshfield, Wisconsin to Sylvester Brokl, a farmer and construction worker, and Ruth (Ware) Brokl, a factory worker and nurse's aide.
His parents married at the beginning of World War II; after enlisting, his father saw action in the Pacific Theater for which he was decorated. Although interested in art since his youth, Brokl enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in 1967 as an English major; his studies were interrupted by his expulsion for antiwar movement activities. He moved to California in the early 1970s, where he met his future husband, Alfred Crofts, at a gay liberation meeting.
[''The Advocate''. "Painter-Activist in the Berkeley-Bloomsbury Traditions," ''The Advocate'', November 17, 1978.]
In 1974, Brokl returned to art, taking classes at Laney College in Oakland and exhibiting by 1976.
He then studied art at
University of California, Berkeley (BFA, 1979; MA, 1980; MFA, 1982), where he was influenced by the Bay Area Figurative Movement and faculty artists
Elmer Bischoff,
Joan Brown,
Jay DeFeo,
Karl Kasten, Sylvia Lark and
Mary Lovelace O'Neal
Mary Lovelace O'Neal (born February 10, 1942) is an American artist and arts educator. Her work is focused on abstracted mixed-media (primarily painting and printmaking) and minimalism. She is a Professor Emeritus, University of California, Ber ...
.
[Sadeghi, Andrea. "Twenty-nine Degrees," ''The Daily Californian'', August 6–12, 1982, p.1, 7–8. 1982.][Curtis, Cathy. "Young Artists Show Well in 'Works on Paper'," ''The Berkeley Gazette'', February 26, 1982.][Drolet, Monica. "Between serious and satirical: 'Viaggi' is a magical trip through pomp and politics," ''Los Medanos College Experience'', November 22, 2002.][''Journal of the Print World'', "Robert Brokl to be Artist-in-Residence," Spring, 2006, p. 17.] From 1981–3, Brokl served as vice-president and president of the California Society of Printmakers (CSP) and helped organize exhibitions and catalogues, including "Contemporary California Prints" (1982) and "Cutting Edge" (1987), during a time of resurgent interest in printmaking.
[The Print Collector's Newsletter. Review, ''The Cutting Edge", September–October 1987, p. 141.'']
Brokl built a reputation in the 1980s for figurative and narrative printmaking and painting through group exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Ruggiero Henis Gallery (New York), San Jose Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, FAMSF and
The Haggin Museum
The Haggin Museum is an art museum and local history museum in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, located in the city's Victory Park. The museum opened in 1931. Its art collection includes works by European painters Jean Béraud, Rosa Bonh ...
, and international shows in Tokyo and Thailand and throughout Europe.
[Halula, Theresa (ed). ''Contemporary Romanticism'', Hayward, CA: University Gallery, California State University, 1986.] His first show in 1983 at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery run by Marian Parmenter began a longstanding exhibition history there that continued until the gallery's closing in 2021.
[Baker, Kenneth]
"Artists at odds with SFMOMA over gallery,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', July 24, 2001. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[''The Montclarion''. "Activist and artist," ''The Montclarion'', September 17, 1993, p. 32.][SFMoMA Artists Gallery]
Robert Brokl
Artists. Retrieved February 15, 2021. In later decades, Brokl has appeared in group shows at the National Printmaking Symposium (
Drake University), Kala Institute,
Triton Museum of Art and Kyoto City Museum, and featured exhibitions at the Oakland Museum,
Fresno Art Museum
The Fresno Art Museum is an art museum in Fresno, California. The museum's collection includes contemporary art, modern art, Mexican and Mexican-American art, and Pre-Columbian sculpture.
Mission Statement
"The Fresno Art Museum offers a dynami ...
,
de Young Museum, and
Thoreau Center for Sustainability.
[Nusbaum, Eliot. "Drake hosts 'Rose Bowl' of the Printmaking art", ''Des Moines Register'', April 11, 1993, p. 51.][Kyoto City Museum. ''The 17th International Impact Art Festival '96'', Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto City Museum, 1996.]
Work
The representational style of Brokl's early work in the 1970s reflected his interest in recording and expressing his experience as a gay man, as well as the influence of California, and often depicted naturally lit people at leisure and on the beach.
Prior to earning his MFA degree, he frequently drew critical attention for paintings and works on paper in juried annuals and group exhibitions, including notices from Bay Area critics Victoria Dalkey, Cathy Curtis and Thomas Albright and ''The Advocate'' for the rawness and "blunt strength"
[Albright, Thomas. "A Potpourri of Art That Should Be Judged Guilty," ''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 5, 1980.] of his figurative work and leisurely, off-guard nudes (e.g., ''Self-Portrait with Pink Sky'' and ''Al and Ludwig – Russian River'', both 1980).
[Dalkey, Victoria. "Art Show at Cal Expo Draws Heaps of Praise for Variety, Liveliness," ''The Sacramento Bee'', November 17, 1979.][Curtis, Cathy. "Standouts at 'open' exhibit," ''The Berkeley Gazette'', November 9, 1980.]
Woodblock printmaking
In the 1980s, Brokl added landscape and woodblock (woodcut) printmaking to his repertoire, producing work noted for its built-up surfaces and textures and feeling for color, mood, and especially, light, as in the large print ''Full Moon – Aquatic Park'', 1984 (FAMSF Collection),
[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
"Full Moon – Aquatic Park,"
Robert Brokl, Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020. which intertwines forms of landscape, foliage, water and sky).
[Dunham, Judith. ''New Impressions: Recent Prints by Bay Area Artists'', San Francisco, CA: World Print Gallery, 1984.] He was strongly influenced by exposure to Asian art and the Japanese printmakers
Hiroshige and
Yoshitoshi; that influence is borne out by pictorial motifs (e.g., bridges, scrolls, birds and flora) and compositional strategies such as the stylized stacking of elements, which creates shallow—rather than perspectival—space in works such as ''Weeping Willow'' (1986) and ''Figures on a Bridge (After Hiroshige)'' (both 1987, FAMSF Collection).
[Stutzin, Leo. "Relief for Art Lovers," ''The Sacramento Bee, November 13, 1988.''][Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
"Weeping Willow,"
Robert Brokl, Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
"Figures on a Bridge,"
Robert Brokl, Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
Mary Davis MacNaughton and others describe Brokl's style as combining traditional
Ukiyo-e subject matter and landscape views with the bold graphic line of German Expressionist woodcuts;
his technique employs multiple blocks to build color and surface and exploits the grain of the wood for expressive purposes, often augmenting the effect with wire brushes.
[Brokl, Robert. "Why Woodblocks?" ''California Society of Printmakers News Brief'', Summer 1982.] Oakland Museum curator Harvey Jones writes that the resulting painterly prints (e.g., ''Willow Bridge'', 1989, FAMSF Collection
[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
"Willow Bridge,"
Robert Brokl, Collection. Retrieved March 27, 2020.) display "gestural effects and lively tactile surfaces more often associated with contemporary oil painting."
[San Francisco State University. ''The Cutting Edge: A Relief Print Exhibition by Members of the California Society of Printmakers'', San Francisco CA: University Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, 1987.]
Brokl's later printmaking—like his painting—explores travel, animals and pets, and art itself and often combines woodblock printing, drawing, collage, painting and stencils (e.g., ''9 Roosters'', 2004; ''Weller Frog and Albers Painting'', 2011; or ''David'', 1992).
[Gant, Michael S]
''San Jose Metro'', January 21, 2004. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Eisenhart, Mary]
"Don't miss: 'Nothing But Dogs and Cats',"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', January 10, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2020. ''India XIII'' (1996) offers a characteristic work in this vein, with a layered, gridded format combining expressive gesture and crudeness in its repeated tiger, rider and elephant images and delicacy in its flower, rabbit and abstract woodblock patterns created with Indian fabric printing blocks.
[Brokl, Robert. "'India XIII" ''California Printmaker'', May 1998, p. 23.]
Painting and drawing
Brokl's oil paintings and prints were featured in the well-covered, five-person exhibition "Contemporary Romanticism" (California State University, Hayward, 1987), which sought to counter the era's "
Bad Painting "Bad" Painting is the name given by critic and curator Marcia Tucker to a trend in American figurative painting in the 1970s. Tucker curated an exhibition of the same name at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, featuring the work of four ...
" movement with work that merged drama with skill and feeling with form.
Critics such as
Charles Shere
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of the ''Oakland Tribune'' characterized Brokl as the unabashed romantic in that show, noting his turbulent, intensely inward and biographical interiors and landscape paintings, such as ''Mendocino Coast'' (1986), whose strong forms and expressive brushwork he likened to that of Elmer Bischoff.
[Hurley, Anne. "Fossilized Funk," ''The San Francisco Bay Guardian'', April 18, 1990.] Other reviewers compare that work and others like ''Figures on a Bridge and Crow'' (1990) to the Romantic scenes of
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and
Ryder, the impressionistic style of
Arts and Crafts
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painter
Arthur Mathews, or
pointillism
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Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" wa ...
.
[Norman, Maxine. "Bay Area Romanticists to Show Featured Work at Campus Gallery," ''The Pioneer'' (Hayward, CA), April 8, 1986, p. 4.][Anderson, Roger. "Big Pictures, Minor Miracles," ''Express'', April 6, 1990, p. 28.] ''Artweek'' critic Mark Van Proyen noted Brokl's "interest in light as a transfiguring pictorial element" in moody, "unpopulated interiors and landscapes that … capture a nocturnal mood of moonlit quietude."
In the 1990s, and 2000s, Brokl's painting and drawing has often been inspired by travels to Greece, India, Italy, Morocco and Spain; this work often fuses multiple images in
surrealist-like collages, "puzzles" or grids that suggest narrative, dream states and the contemporary bombardment of sensations, as in the large oil, ''Midwest VI/VII'' (2001).
[''Bay Area Reporter''. "SFMOMA Rental Gallery," ''Bay Area Reporter'', May 27, 1999, p. 47.][Modenessi, Jennifer. "LMC offers art as social comment," ''Ledger Dispatch'', November 29, 2002, p. 2.] His exhibitions at the SFMOMA Artist Gallery (1993, 1999) and paintings in the 1994 show "Dream Riddle" featured fragments of masterworks, such as
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...
's
''David'', as well as Greek vases, Roman sculpture and
Indian miniatures, which function as symbolic icons in meditations on mortality, human existence and the
AIDS crisis.
[Lederer, Carrie (ed). ''Dream Riddle: Images from the Unconscious'', Walnut Creek, CA: Regional Center for the Arts/Bedford Gallery, 1994.] Writer Jennifer Modenessi describes the show, "Viaggi Artistici" (2002, with
M. Louise Stanley) as a "fantastic voyage where past and present overlap and collide", noting his "Egypt" series, which combines impressionistic images of outdoor monuments, museum interiors and silhouettes of tourists.
In the 2000s, Brokl has also explored portraiture (e.g., ''Joan Brown'', 2005), often in multi-panel formats (e.g., ''Six Modern Heads I'', 1999).
[''Marin Independent Journal''. "Best Bets: Pushing the envelope," September. 8, 2005.][Cheng, DeWitt. "Picks--Berkeley Arts Festival Painting Show," ''East Bay Express'', August 3–9, 2011.]
His 2022 show at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, "What I’ve Been up To," consisted of landscape-themed paintings, drawings, and prints that were described as a visual chronicle of an era of savage wildfires, severe drought, and rapid climate change in California.
[Fancher, Lou]
"Landscapes by local artist chronicle changes to California’s natural world,"
''Piedmont Exedra'', March 1, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
Activism
Brokl has been an activist for five decades, beginning with antiwar and civil rights activities in the 1960s and continuing through work on gay rights, historical preservation and sustainable development, and community support and fundraising.
[''San Francisco Examiner''. "Proposed ordinance for gays is nearly ready in Berkeley," ''San Francisco Examiner'', April 5, 1978.][Walker, Thaai]
"Old Ward Building Deemed Historic / Foes of Oakland structure upset,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 14, 1998. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Brokl, Robert]
"Architectural Judgment Called into Question,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', February 11, 2000. Retrieved March 27, 2020.[Said, Carolyn]
"Historic Oakland home's owner getting help,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', February 2, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2020. In the 1970s, he and Crofts worked as members of the Committee for a Berkeley Human Rights Law for Gay People for passage of Berkeley's gay rights ordinance (approved, 1978); its introduction spurred passage of similar legislation in San Francisco that year through efforts led by
Harvey Milk and was considered the strongest such measure in the U.S. at the time.
[Brokl, Robert. "Berkeley Snubs Briggs: Gay Rights Victory," ''Grassroots'', October 4–18, 1978.][Edwards, Eleanor. "Gay rights ordinance passes," ''The Independent and Gazette'' (Berkeley), September 20, 1978, p. 1, 3–4.][Brokl, Robert. "Gay Rights Proposal," ''East Bay Voice'', September 1978, p. 3.]
Brokl also has a passion for grassroots preservationist efforts. He and Crofts were core founding members of North Oakland Voters Alliance (NOVA), which published a newsletter and held monthly meetings in the 1980s and 1990s.
[Kirkwood, Kathleen. "Heritage group lists endangered buildings," ''The Oakland Tribune'', June 27, 1997, p. A1, A13.][Brokl, Robert. "Oaklanders can attract tourism by preserving buildings," ''Montclarion'', March 24, 2000.] NOVA battled publicly with the city of Oakland over attempts to demolish North Oakland's Old
Merritt College
Merritt College is a public community college in Oakland, California. Merritt, like the other three campuses of the Peralta Community College District, is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The college e ...
(originally University High School and a key site in the origins of the
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Califo ...
)
[Hardy, Charles C. "Merritt College building is site of preservation battle," ''San Francisco Examiner'', March 9, 1993.][Zamora, Jim Herron. "Old Merritt College's Last Stand," ''The East Bay Guardian'', February 1991, p. 19–20.][Bealer, Cheryl. "Future of old Merritt still up in air," ''Montclarion'', March 8, 1991.][Seale, Bobby]
''Seize the Time''
Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1970. Retrieved March 27, 2020. The group successfully placed the building on the
National Register of Historic Places, over the City's objections, and sued the City in federal court for "demolition by neglect" in 1992.
[Brandt-Hawley Law Group]
"North Oakland Voters Alliance v. Oakland (1992) 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19033, 1992 WL 367096,"
Cases. Retrieved April 2, 2020.[Wang, Arlene K. and Lisa Owens-Viani. ''Brownfields Redevelopment: Meeting the Challenges of Community Participation'', Oakland, CA: Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, 2000.] The nine-acre Merritt site was eventually rehabilitated for use as UCSF Benioff
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, the North Oakland Senior Center, and a public park and housing; NOVA also successfully placed four Carnegie Libraries in the city on the National Register, bolstering successful bond measures for their refurbishment.
In 1996, Brokl joined the board of the Oakland Heritage Alliance, initiating annual "endangered lists" of threatened Oakland landmarks.
[Selna, Robert. "Oakland lengthens list of imperiled landmarks," ''San Francisco Examiner'', July 9, 1998.] Among the landmarks rescued were the
Art Deco Fox Oakland Theater, which reopened in 2009 after a $75 million restoration; the Floral Depot building; a Sears Roebuck building converted into lofts; and the Cox Cadillac Building, converted into a Whole Foods.
[Walker, Thaai]
"Oakland Schools Win Right to Dicker For Old Ward's Site,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', May 27, 1998. Retrieved March 27, 2020. He also joined efforts by The League for the Protection of Oakland’s Architectural and Historic Resources to save a 1923
Montgomery Ward & Company distribution center in the Fruitvale District, despite its listing on the National Register of Historic Places; the building was demolished in 2001.
[''Oakland Post''. "Wards Demolition 'A Sad Occasion'", ''Oakland Post'', February 14, 2001. p. 4.][Brandt-Hawley Law Group]
"League for Protection v. City of Oakland (1997) 52 Cal.App.4th 896,"
Cases. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
Related to his activism, Brokl has been a longtime contributor to the ''
Berkeley Daily Planet''; his articles are available both in its archives and at Muck Rack.com.
[Brokl, Robert]
"Scott Wiener is the Housing Industry's Pied Piper,"
''The Berkeley Daily Planet'', June 14, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2020.[Muck Rack]
"Robert Brokl."
Retrieved April 2, 2020.
Additional art activities
Brokl has advocated through essays, lectures and curatorial efforts for the recognition of several under-appreciated artists and movements, including David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Movement,
[Brokl, Robert.]
"'Queering' David Park: Is It Fair to see Homoerotic Subtexts in Park’s imagery?"
''The Berkeley Daily Planet'', November 21, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020. printer and painter
Augusta Rathbone
Augusta Payne Briggs Rathbone (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1990) was an American painter, etcher and printmaker. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and in Paris. She depicted people and locations from San Francisco, the Sie ...
(1897–1990), and the figurative painter Richard Caldwell Brewer (1923–2014), who focused on male nudes; as executors of Brewer's estate, Brokl and Crofts have donated his materials and many of his works to the
Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retai ...
at UC Berkeley, the
GLBT Historical Society
The GLBT Historical Society (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society) (formerly Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California; San Francisco Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) maintains an extensive collection ...
in San Francisco, and the
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles, respectively.
[Brokl, Robert. "Augusta Rathbone: Rediscovered Printmaker," ''California Printmaker'', October 1984, p. 6–7.][Madeline Carter. "Richard Caldwell Brewer (1923–2014)," San Francisco: Lost Art Salon, 2018.] Brokl has also taught art at
University of California, Davis and
San Francisco State University.
Awards and collections
Brokl's art belongs to the public collections of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts (FAMSF),
Bates College Museum of Art,
[Bates College Museum of Art]
Robert Robert Brokl
Artist. Retrieved May 19, 2022. GLBT Historical Society
The GLBT Historical Society (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society) (formerly Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California; San Francisco Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Historical Society) maintains an extensive collection ...
, Library of Congress,
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is a fine arts museum located at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California. Its full name is the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
The museum opened on November 13, 2016. According t ...
, Oakland Museum,
Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
and Stockton Art Commission, among others, as well as to numerous private and corporate collections.
He has been recognized with an
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation was established in 1976. It is an American nonprofit organization that provides funding for the arts.
History
The Gottlieb Foundation was established after Adolph Gottlieb’s death in 1974. Esther Gottlie ...
Grant (2006), a Kala Institute Fellowship (1992), prizes from the Berkeley Art Center, Stockton Art League and Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition (Illinois), and an artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum (2006), among other awards.
[''Artweek''. "2006 Gottlieb Grants," July/August, 2006.][Brokl, Robert. "Change and Growth," ''California Society of Printmakers News Brief'', Winter 2006, p. 8–9.]
References
External links
Robert Brokl website
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21st-century American artists
20th-century American painters
American printmakers
Artists from Wisconsin
Artists from Oakland, California
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American LGBT rights activists
Historical preservationists
1948 births
Living people
People from Marshfield, Wisconsin
American LGBT artists
LGBT people from Wisconsin