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Rudolph Weisenborn

Rudolph Weisenborn (1881 - 1974) was active/lived in Illinois, Colorado.  Rudolph Weisenborn is known for Modernist painting, radical teaching and painting of abstraction, cubism.

Born in Chicago to German parents and orphaned at age nine, Rudolph Weisenborn led a peripatetic life during his youth before settling in Colorado, where he worked as a cowboy and gold miner. In Denver, he enrolled in the Students’ School of Art and studied there for four years under Henry Reed and Jean Mannheim, a German-born, French-trained artist.

Weisenborn followed a traditional academic curriculum, drawing from casts for two years before working with live models. Even as a young artist, he rebelled against the strictures of what he believed to be a stifling approach to art, stating, “It took me ten years to get it out of my system.”

After ten years in Colorado, a visit to an exhibition of impressionist paintings—described by Weisenborn as “big gusts of fresh air from the mountain tops”—catalyzed a shift in his art. He relocated to Chicago in 1913 to seek out the vitality and dynamism of urban life, and held his first solo show there at the Molten and Rickettes Gall   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13530 characters.]  Artist bio

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