Milton "Robert" Rauschenberg
Crop of photo of Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg, by Trude Guermonprez. Courtesy of Western Regional Archives
Rauschenberg with his drawing. Photograph by Burton Breinsky. The Life Images Collection, Getty.
FOCUS
Art/ Design/ Craft
ROLE
Student
ATTENDANCE
1948 - 1951
BIRTH
1925-10-22
Port Arthur, TX
DEATH
2008-05-08
New York City, NY
Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines, a group of artworks which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture.
Robert was a student from fall of 1948 to spring of 1949. Before BMC, he attended Kansas City Art Institute February 3, 1947 until June 1948, and Acadamie Julian in Paris June 1948 through September 1948.
There are many resources available on the life and work of Robert Raushenberg on the Rauschenberg Foundation site.
Courses Taken
Fall 1948 Semester: Took Painting and Drawing with Albers, Chorus with Schlesinger, and Dance with Jennerjahn
Spring 1949: Painting, Color, and Drawing with J. Albers, Dance and Elements of Movement with Jennerjahn, Textile Construction with Albers and Guermonprez, Voice with Jalowetz and Chorus with Schlesinger
Summer 1951: Painting Tutorial with Shahn and Motherwell, and work program
Fall 1951: Photography with Larsen, Painting Tutorial, and Russian with A. Goldowski
Spring 1951: Painting, Photography with Larsen, and Russian with A. Goldowski
Summer 1951: Voice with Jalowetz
