Robert Slutzky (November 27, 1929 - May 3, 2005) was an American abstract painter and architectural theorist. He was the chair of the department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critic of the International Style. His paintings were exhibited in museums on the East Coast.
Robert Slutzky | |
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| Born | November 27, 1929 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 3, 2005 Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Cooper Union Yale School of Art |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, architectural theorist |
| Spouse | 2, including Joan Ockman |
| Children | 1 daughter |
Early life
editSlutzky was born on November 27, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York City.[1] He graduated from Cooper Union in 1951 and he attended Yale School of Art,[2] where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1954.[1]
Career
editSlutzky began his career by teaching architectural theory at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked with John Hejduk, Bernhard Hoesli and Colin Rowe.[3] With the latter, Slutzky co-authored a collection of essays in which he criticized the International Style. Slutzky later taught at Cornell University and the Pratt Institute.[2] From 1968 to 1990, he taught at his alma mater, Cooper Union.[1] He taught in department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2005,[3] where he served as the chair.[4] He received the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001.[2]
Slutzsky was also an abstract painter,[4] with works exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,[2] and held by the Whitney Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[1][5]
Personal life and death
editSlutzky was married twice; his second wife, Joan Ockman, is an architectural historian and theorist that currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale School of Architecture.[6] Slutzky had a daughter, Zoe,[2] and he resided in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.[1]
Slutzky died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on May 3, 2005, in Abington, Pennsylvania.[7]
Selected works
edit- Slutzky, Robert; Rowe, Colin (1997). Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Parts I and II. Basel: Birkhäuser. ISBN 978-0817656157. OCLC 645795787.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Fox, Margalit (May 7, 2005). "Robert Slutzsky, 75, Painter and Architectural Theorist, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Deaths: Professor Slutzsky, Fine Arts". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. May 24, 2005. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ a b Vidler, Anthony. "Special Emanations: Paintings by Robert Slutzky". School of Architecture. Cooper Union. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ a b "A Dual Homage". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 18, 2005. p. W36. Retrieved November 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Untitled, Robert Slutzky, American, 1929 - 2005". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ "Graduate Architecture | Weitzman School".
- ^ "Deaths Last Week". Chicago Tribune. May 15, 2005. p. 8. Retrieved November 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.