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Robert Engman (Robert M. Engman) was born on 29 April, 1927 in Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American sculptor. Discover Robert Engman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?
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Robert M. Engman |
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91 years old |
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Taurus |
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29 April, 1927 |
Birthday |
29 April |
Birthplace |
Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Date of death |
4 July, 2018 |
Died Place |
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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United States
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Robert Engman Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Robert Engman's Wife?
His wife is Margaret Engman
(m. ~1955; div. 1977)
Nancy L. Porter (m. 1985)
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Margaret Engman
(m. ~1955; div. 1977)
Nancy L. Porter (m. 1985) |
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Robert Engman Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Engman worth at the age of 91 years old? Robert Engman’s income source is mostly from being a successful sculptor. He is from United States. We have estimated Robert Engman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Robert Engman (April 29, 1927 – July 4, 2018) was an American sculptor with works in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum, MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, numerous college museums, and private collections.
Engman was born in 1927 to parents who had emigrated from Sweden.
He joined the Navy at the age of 15, serving in World War II in the Pacific.
He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA, and from Yale University with an MFA in Painting and in Sculpture (1955), where he studied with sculptor José de Rivera and Josef Albers.
Albers wrote of him: “Only a few independent ones were courageous enough to concentrate on the plane—the in-between of volume and line—as a broad sculptural concept and promise.”
Engman taught sculpture at Yale University, and, in 1960, was appointed director of Yale's sculpture program in its Graduate School of Fine Arts.
In the 1960s and '70s, his career flourished, with successful New York gallery shows and larger and larger scale commissions, culminating in Triune,(1975) a 20-foot-high structure of interlocking bronze curves.
The physical effort required to complete Triune brought a check to Engman's artistic drive to "dominate the materials."
He worked closely with Josef Albers, James Rosati, Ann Lehman, and Paul Rudolph, and produced his monumental work, Column, (1963) for Rudolph's new building for the Yale Art & Architecture program.
Represented by Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa's influential Galerie Chalette in New York, his work attracted the attention of Joseph Hirshhorn, who began to actively collect Engman's sculptures.
In 1964, Engman moved to Pennsylvania, where he became director of the University of Pennsylvania's graduate studies in sculpture.
He was a frequent visiting critic at East Coast schools of art during his teaching career.
In 1978, he changed his approach to art.
With rare exceptions, Engman eschewed the factory approach to sculpture, preferring to personally construct his pieces.
He retreated from the world of large-scale commissions, and began work on a series of more intimately-scaled pieces that did not require a workshop of helpers to complete.
The sinuous curves of Engman's work are derived from the artist’s explorations of minimal surfaces to generate sculptural form.
Minimal surfaces are mathematically the most economical connections between loops or lines in three-dimensional space.
Engman created assemblages of minimal surface configurations to form geometrically-based sculptures that could, at the time of their production, be described mathematically only after they had been physically created in metal or wood.
In Engman's own words, "they cannot be conceived of through any other system than that of the giving of substance to thought."
Others have been fascinated with the science and mathematics of such surfaces, including the late R. Buckminster Fuller.