biografía de Richard KOPPE (1916-1973)

Lugar de nacimiento: St. Paul, MN

Direcciones: Chicago, IL

Profesión: Painter, educator

Estudios: St. Paul Acad. & Sch. Art with Cameron Booth, LeRoy Turner & Nicolai Cikovsky; New Bauhaus, Chicago, with Moholy-Nagy, Archipenko, Gyorgy Kepes, Hin Bredendieck, Ralph W. Gerard, Carl Eckart & Charles W. Morris.

Exposiciones: PAFA Ann., 1951; Illinois State Fair, Springfield, 1950 (Old Northwest Territory Exh. first award); WMAA; Pittsburgh Int., Carnegie Inst., 1952; "53 Painters from Chicago," U.S. Info Agency, France, Germany, and Holland, 1957-59; AIC, 63rd Ann. Chicago & Vicinity, 1960 (Pauline Palmer prize); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1961; Crown Hall, Illinois Inst. Tech., 1961 (retrospective); "50 Years Bauhaus-Kunstgebäude, Stuggart," traveling exh. to Royal Acad. Art, London, Stedelijk Mus., MoMA, Paris Crown Hall, Chicago, Pasadena Art Mus., Mus. Nac. Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, and MOMA, Tokyo, 1968-71; Mus. Contemp. Art, Chicago, 1970 (solo).

Asociaciones: Mus. Contemp. Art; AEA

Obra: WMAA; Brooklyn Mus.; Syracuse Univ. (paintings and manuscripts); Smith College Mus. Art, Northampton, MA. Commissions: "Well of the Sea" (seven murals & four sculptures), Hotel Sherman Restaurant, Chicago, 1948-49; scale paintings for geodesic model, comn. by Buckminster Fuller, Chicago, 1949; textile design, Blanch Martin & Assocs., Chicago, 1950; three panels on glass mirrors, Medical Bldg., Chicago, 1951; metal sculpture panel, Club Lido, South Bend, IN, 1954.

Comentarios: Preferred media: oils, acrylics, watercolors, ink. Positions: painter & designer, Illinois Arts & Crafts, WPA, 1938-41; camouflage & res. auth., War Services, Chicago, 1941-42; free lance artist, Chicago, 1940s; group leader & prod. illustr. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Co., Fort Worth, 1943-46. Teaching: Univ. Texas Exten., Fort Worth, 1943-45; Inst. Design, Illinois Inst. Tech., 1946-63. Auth.: "The Sources of Contemporary Painting," Arts & Arch., 1962; "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and His Visions," 1969 & "Recent Paintings, Construction and Reflections," 1969, Art Int.; contrib., Bauhaus and Bauhaus People, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969; Bauhaus und Bauhäusler, Hallwag Verlag, 1971.

Fuentes: WW73; Falk, Exh. Record Series.