Robert Knipschild (1927-2004) was born in Freeport, Illinois. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1950, at the age of twenty-three, his work was selected for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's widely acclaimed exhibition American Painting Today. Since that time, he has received wide recognition, with over seventy-five one-man shows and several prizes in important competitive exhibitions. In 1951, Knipschild was added to the roster of the Downtown Gallery, then the leading New York gallery devoted to American art. He has exhibited in such museums as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Cincinnati Art Museum and Contemporary Arts Center.

Mr. Knipschild taught widely throughout the United States and retired from the University of Cincinnati, where he held the positions of Professor of Fine Arts and Director of Graduate Studies in Art.

Studied

University of Wisconsin and at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he worked under Zoltan Sepeshy

Exhibited

Boston; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Cincinnati Art Museum and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Alan Gallery, NYC; Cranbrook Museum.

Work

Hirshhorn Museum and  Sculpture Garden; Corcoran Gallery of Art; The Phillips Collection, the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Library of Congress; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Cranbrook Museum; the University of Cincinnati; University of Minnesota; University of Michigan; Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC; AT&T; Scripps Howard Foundation, Cincinnati; Cincinnati Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Huntington National Bank, Columbus, Ohio

References

“Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in American Art”, “Outstanding Educators of America”, “National Register of Prominent Americans”, “the Smithsonian Archives of American Art”.