Robert von neumann biography

Von Neumann was a founding member of the Wisconsin Watercolor Society and served as President of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors during 1931 and 1932....

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Robert Franz Von Neumann was born September 10, 1888 in Rostock, Germany, a port city on the Baltic Sea. Little is known of his early life there until he began.

Von Neumann was a founding member of the Wisconsin Watercolor Society and served as President of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors during 1931 and 1932.

He was born in Rostock, Germany in 1888.

When WWI cast a shadow over Europe, von Neumann served on the German infantry.

Robert Von Neumann (1888-1976) was arguably Wisconsin’s most significant artist of the first have of the 20^th Century. He was extremely prolific, creating many prints and paintings, he exhibited widely, and as a teacher he influenced many other artists.

Robert Von Neumann was born in Germany in 1888. He studied art in Germany, fought in World War I, and taught for some years in Berlin after the war. He also worked as an illustrator and a lithographer in Germany.

Along with his wife, he emigrated to America in 1926 and settled in Milwaukee.

1888 - 1976 Born in Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany, Robert von Neumann was a painter, lithographer, engraver, block printer, and teacher.

He soon started teaching at Milwaukee’s Layton School of Art, and shortly thereafter began teaching at Milwaukee State Teachers College (later the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), where he spent the remainder of his teaching career, retiring in 1959.

Over the years he actively participated in many arts organizations, and exhibited numerous times. He exhibited at the Milwaukee Journal Gallery of Art, with the Wisconsin Pa