ROBERT KNIPSCHILD BIO
ROBERT KNIPSCHILD
1927 - 2004
Robert Knipschild was born in 1927, in Freeport, Illinois. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, and at Cranbrook Academy of Art where he worked under Zoltan Sepeshy. 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. Knipschild’s work has been exhibited in the Boston Museum; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran; De Young Museum, San Francisco; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Knipschild’s work has also been included in important surveys of American Art including the Annuals of the Whitney Museum, the Carnegie Institute, the Walker Art Center, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Butler Museum, and the Kansas City Museum. He has also exhibited in museums in Europe, Japan and Australia.
After a brief illness Robert Knipschild died on November 20, 2004. He was the director of graduate studies in Fine Art for the University of Cincinnati from 1967 until his retirement in 1991. In this position he influenced many of Louisville, Kentucky’s finest artists.
HONORS
Elected to board of directors of the Cincinnati Commission on the Arts
Cincinnati Post-Corbett Award Finalist
Elected to International Directory of Arts
1979
Elected to international “Who’s Who in Education”
Recipient of the George Rieveschl Award for Creative Works, University of Cincinnati
Elected to “Who’s Who in the World”
Elected a Fellow of the Graduate School University of Cincinnati
Five paintings acquisitioned by the Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1975
Elected to National Society of Literature and the Arts
1974
Inclusion in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute
1973
Dictionary of International Biography
Elected to American Biographical Institute of Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans
Elected to Outstanding Educators of America
Elected to society of Arts Commission
Elected to Kentucky Arts Commission
Elected to Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in America
1966-68
American Federation of Art Traveling Exhibition- “50 Artists from 50 States”
1952
Painting chosen by the Museum of Modern Art to tour European Museums with traveling exhibition “American Painting Today”
ACADEMIC CAREER
1990-1991 Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts Director
1967-1990 Graduate Studies in Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati
Summer 1979 Pro team director, School of Art, University of Cincinnati
1967-71 Chairman, Division of Art, University of Cincinnati
1966-67 Professor, Head, Department of Fine Arts, University of Cincinnati
1960-66 University of Iowa, Associate Professor
1956-60 University of Wisconsin, Assistant Professor
1954-56 University of Connecticut, Instructor
1952 American University, Washington, D.C., Visiting Instructor
1951-52 Baltimore Museum of Art, Assistant to Director of Education
In addition to frequent jurying of art exhibitions, Professor Knipschild has been invited as a visiting artist to the following institutions:
University of Louisville
Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
Idaho State University, Pocatello
University of Tulsa
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
PRIZES AWARDED BY
Wisconsin Salon of Art
Container Corp. of America
Springfield Museum (All New England Show)
American Federation of Art
Old Northwest Territory Exhibition, Springfield, Illinois
Mid America Exhibition, Kansas City Museum
Walker Biennial, Minneapolis
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “Into the Void- Abstract Art, 1948-2008”, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Robert Knipschild – A Retrospective , B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2008 “The Egyptian Series”, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2006 “Paintings”, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2004 “Robert Knipschild - A Career Retrospective”, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio
2002 “Paintings,” B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
“A Forty-Year Retrospective,” Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
Suzanna Terrill Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2001 Suzanna Terrill Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Piedmont Gallery, Augusta, Kentucky
Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, California
1986 Transition Gallery, Idaho State University
Gallery K. Washington, D.C.
Mather Gallery, Case-Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Yares Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
1978 Piedmont Gallery, Augusta, Kentucky
Mason Country Museum, Maysville, Kentucky
Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Findlay College, Ohio
Heistand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Birmingham Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Sneed-Hillman Gallery, Rockford, Illinois
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Madison Liberty, Madison, New Jersey
Tangeman Gallery, University of Cincinnati, “Knipschild 1964-74.” Cincinnati, Ohio
1973 Madison College, Harrisburg, Virginia
Price Doyle Fine Arts Center, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
1972 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Benedicta Art Center, St. Joseph, Minnesota
Bluefield State College, Bluefield, West Virginia
Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1969 Two Man Show, Peterdi and Knipschild Editions Limited, Indianapolis, Indiana
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Moorehead State College, Moorehead, Minnesota
Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Alms Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Afternoon Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Hope College, Holland, Michigan
Hawkeye, Burlington, Iowa
Edward Cain Galleries, Aspen, Colorado
Sneed’s Gallery, Rockford, Illinois (1964, 1967, 1968, and 1975)
Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
Lubetkin Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Charles IV Galley, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Alan Gallery, New York, New York
Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Cranbrook Museum
Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Perkin’s Studio, Freeport, Illinois
Daniel’s Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Federation of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
Cincinnati Art Museum
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum
Hartford Arts Foundation, Cincinnati
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hope College, Holland, Michigan
Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
The Library of Congress
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Tucson Museum of Art
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin State University
Skidmore College, New York
Grinnell College, Iowa
Illinois Wesleyan University
Augustana College
Stephen’s College, Missouri
University of Cincinnati
Murray State University, Kentucky
Madison College, Virginia
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Milwaukee Journal
University of Minnesota
University of Michigan
Northern Kentucky University
Cedar Rapids Art Association, Iowa
Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald, PLLC, Louisville, Kentucky
Federated Department Stores Executive Offices, Cincinnati, Ohio
Bell Telephone Co.
Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
Gem City Savings, Dayton, Ohio
EON/Louisville Gas & Electric, Louisville, Kentucky
Davenport Municipal Gallery, Iowa
Knoll Associates
Upjohn Corporation, Michigan
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
AT&T
American Financial Corp.
LeBow Corp., New York
Central Trust, Dayton, Ohio
Scripps Howard Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.
Gem City Savings Corp., Dayton, Ohio
Huntington National Bank, Columbus, Ohio
Lempres and Wulfsberg Corp., Oakland, California
ROBERT KNIPSCHILD
EXCERPTS FROM PAST CRITICAL COMMENTS:
“Quality is to be found in superbly contained yet explosive semi-abstractions by Robert Knipschild.”
Emily Genaur, Art Critic
New York Tribune
“Liquid and stone, and off in the distance a grey, dull spray, sonorous and mysterious, very romantic and yet with a touch of mystery.”
Arthur Darack, Art Critic
Cincinnati Enquirer
“…in his canvases he brings an evocation of the most brilliant and joyous colors
in mountains and skies, or perhaps again, the feeling of a brooding mystical nature.”
George Shane, Art Critic
Des Moines Register and Tribune
“…an extensive and intensive art experience.”
Lee Sheridan, Art Critic
Springfield Massachusetts Daily News
“(a painter of) impressive stature.”
Robert Freimark
Iowa Business and Industry
“Rembrantesque glazes in golden tones and a pervading restfulness which does
not rule out romantic excursions into a highly personal world.”
Leonard Thiessen
Sunday World-Herald Magazine
Omaha
“No doubt about the succulence of their textures and the almost baleful beauty
of the color.”
Stuart Preston, Art Critic
New York Times
“They have balance. They evoke feeling. Paintings like his exist independently
of the realities beyond their frames.”
Patrick Shene Catling
The Baltimore Sun
“One might keep one’s eye on Robert Knipschild.”
Thomas B. Hess
Art News Magazine
