Robert Wienert Nickle (May 22, 1919 – November 12, 1980) was a 20th-century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap"
collage work.
Nickle was born in
Saginaw, Michigan
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. In 1943, he graduated from the
University of Michigan
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where he studied architecture and design. He enlisted in the Navy that May, and served in the South Pacific.
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Nickle worked and taught primarily in
Chicago
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Illinois
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where he was affiliated with the New Bauhaus under
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the ...
, then with the
University of Illinois at Chicago
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(UIC).
Exhibits
Robert Nickle's work is included in the permanent collections of the
Art Institute of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery,
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum,
Smithsonian Museum,
Carnegie Institute Museum and the
National Gallery
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in Washington.
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People from Saginaw, Michigan
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning alumni
1919 births
1980 deaths
Artists from Chicago
United States Navy personnel of World War II