Collection: Robert Wolff (1905-1979)

Studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris

Robert Wolff (1905-1979)

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Robert Wolff (1905-1979) artwork for sale. The King (Abstract in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue), Painting, 1958, Denver, Colorado, Art Gallery)

About the Artist

Robert Jay Wolff studied at the Chicago Art Institute (1928) and in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts (1929-1930). Following his return to the United States in 1932, Wolff opened a studio in Chicago and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1937, he became a member of the Abstract American Artists and exhibited with the group. In 1938, he helped form the Chicago Institute of Design along with Gyorgy Kepes and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. The Institute is considered an American revival of the German Bauhaus school. Wolff later served as a professor at Brooklyn College where he became department chairman and organized the first Bauhaus-based arts program in a liberal arts college in the United States.