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Robert Franz Von Neumann

Robert Franz Von Neumann

born Rostock, Germany, 1888; died West Bend, Wisconsin, 1976

BiographyRobert Franz von Neumann immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1926 after receiving his art education, working as a designer and illustrator, and serving in the German infantry during WWI. He and his family settled in Milwaukee where he had a career in teaching at the Milwaukee State Teacher's College, the Layton School of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Neumann embraced the Regionalist style during the 1930s and was particularly known for his paintings and lithographs of fishermen on the Great Lakes. His works are in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; The Chicago Art Institute; the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; and the Milwaukee Art Museum among others.

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