dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Weisenborn
vorname: Rudolph
wikidata-repräsentation: Q43139893
biografische angaben: 1881–1974. Weisenborn, who was orphaned at nine, paid for his training at the Students School of Art in Denver by working as a gold miner, cow puncher, and janitor. Proud at first of the academic approach to art he had mastered, he soon rejected it, saying that it took him ten years to get it out of his system. He returned to Chicago, his birthplace, in 1913, the year the radical Armory Show came to the city. He had a long career in Chicago as an avantgarde artist and was called "a pioneer abstract painter and visionary" because of the references in his work to the European art movements of cubism, expressionism, and fauvism. His anti-institutional attitude led him and several other artists to form the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. When his painting Chicago was exhibited at the Art Institute in 1928, it was described as "a unique marriage of modernistic formal vocabulary with a contemporary Chicago subject." He exhibited widely and taught at the Chicago Academy of Arts and in his studio until 1964. He was also known for his portraits in charcoal, casein, and oil.