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Richard Koppe

Richard Koppe (1916 - 1973) was active/lived in Minnesota, Illinois.  Richard Koppe is known for Non objective imagery, art education.

Richard Koppe (Am. 1916-1973)

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Richard Koppe studied at the St. Paul School of Art with artists Cameron Booth, LeRoy Turner and Nicolai Cikovsky.  In 1937, Koppe moved to Chicago and continued his studies at the Institute of Design (ID) with the noted Bauhaus masters Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes and Alexander Archipenko.  He became an instructor at the Institute of Design in 1946 and remained an Associate Professor at the ID until 1963.

At the ID, Richard Koppe's work in painting, sculpture and drawing is unified by a synthesis of surrealism and abstraction.  He skillfully employed a precise use of line that both defines and deconstructs his abstract compositions.  Even today, his work from the 1940s and 1950s is timely, while firmly embracing the aesthetic sensibilities of the mid-Twentieth Century.

Koppe exhibited widely during his lifetime. He gained international acclaim for his work shown at the prestigious a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1597 characters.]  Artist bio

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