Age, Biography and Wiki

Robert Mottar was born on 29 October, 1919 in United States, is an American photographer. Discover Robert Mottar'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 48 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation N/A
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October, 1919
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace N/A
Date of death November 1967, in New York City
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 October. He is a member of famous photographer with the age 48 years old group.

Robert Mottar Height, Weight & Measurements

At 48 years old, Robert Mottar height not available right now. We will update Robert Mottar's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

Family
Parents Not Available
Wife Not Available
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

Robert Mottar Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Mottar worth at the age of 48 years old? Robert Mottar’s income source is mostly from being a successful photographer. He is from United States. We have estimated Robert Mottar's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income photographer

Robert Mottar Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

1915

He had a sister Bonnie Louise Mottar born August 16, 1915.

His mother remarried when Robert was about 10 or 11.

1919

Robert Mottar (October 29, 1919, in Springfield, Illinois – November 1967, in New York City) was an American industrial and magazine photographer, active 1950s–1960s.

Robert Mottar was born in Springfield, Illinois on October 29, 1919, to Louise Ann Mottar (Lindrew) and University of Illinois Pharmacy graduate (1910) Samuel Mayo Mottar (b. 1889), a salesman for Squibb in Chicago and trustee of the University of Illinois.

1940

He lived in Los Angeles and Baltimore in the 1940s, and in Oregeval, Paris and New York during the 1950s.

Robert Mottar, often credited as 'Robert M. Mottar', began his career as a staff photographer for The Baltimore Sun in the 1940s, and was invited to conduct a workshop in 1949 at the first Missouri Photo Workshop, before graduating to freelancer for business magazines including Fortune. He was also commissioned for stories on celebrities for mass-circulation magazines such as LOOK and LIFE.

Mottar produced photographs of major building projects, technology and industry and made portraits of major players.

1947

In March 1947, Mottar married Mary Carlile Boyd in Reno, Nevada and they lived in Westport.

They had three children, Mary Mottar (1947–1955), Jill Mottar, born 1948, and Peter Mottar, born 1951.

1950

During the 1950s, Mottar accompanied University of Arkansas folklorist Mary Celestia Parler undertaking the Folklore Research Project (1949–1965).

The photographs feature Mary Celestia Parler and others active in collecting folklore, as well as the subjects of Ozark folklore studies.

Overseas Mottar worked between Oregeval, Paris and New York where he was represented by Scope Associates.

1952

In 1952 Mottar made portraits of alumni emeritus professors at Princeton University in their academic environments that were published in The Princeton Alumni Weekly and exhibited in 1953 in the Princetoniana Room of the University Library: Henry Norris Russell, Astronomy; Charles Rufus Morey, Art and Archaeology; Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, Arthur Maurice Greene, Dean of Engineering; William Starr Myers, Politics; Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Belles Lettres; Frank Jewett Mather Jr., Art and Archaeology; Gordon Hall Gerould, Belles Lettres; Edward Samuel Corwin, Jurisprudence; Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, American History; George Wicker Elederkin, Art and Archaeology; Gilbert Chinard, French Literature; George Harrison Shull, Botany and Genetics.

1953

There, Mottar photographed Andre Gustave Parodi at the Swiss embassy in Rome, Russell Baker in London (1953), Mark R. Lazarus in Oxford (1953), Ulrich Ernst Von Gienanth in Eisenberg (1954), John Richard Cary in Munich (1954), Francis Torrance Wiliamson in the US embassy, Rome (1954), Ludwig Edelstein in Oxford (1954), Tom Edward Davis and Thomas Southcliffe Ashton at the London School of Economics (1953), Thomas Watkins McElhiney in Berlin (1954), Arthur Kurtz Myers in Geneva (1953), Frank Vigor Morley in London (1953).

Mottar was a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP).

1955

His near-silhouette against blank sky of a dogman standing on a girder being lifted by a crane featured in the world-touring The Family of Man,  cropped to a tight vertical and mounted floor-to-ceiling to cover an entire structural column in the exhibition space at the Museum of Modern Art showing January 24–May 8, 1955.

The Family of Man was seen by 9 million visitors worldwide and is now on show in perpetuity at Clervaux Castle in Luxembourg.

1956

The marriage ended in divorce in 1956 with Mary winning full custody of the couple's two children.

1957

His portraits made at Johns Hopkins include John Allen Austin, Harold Ingle, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Leo Spitzer, Alex Quiroga, Ferdinand J. Hamburger, James William Perry Jr., Ben Wolfe, Alphonse Chapanis, Henry Carrington Lancaster, Ernst Cloys Laurence Hall Fowler, Robert Lowell and Lowell Jacob Reed, Sheldon Keith Spalding (1957), Lyn D. Poole (1957), William Bennett Kouwenhoven (1950), Frank Vigor Morley (1953), William Moore Passano (1956), Edward Russel Hawkins (1950), Alexander Graham Christie (1950), Leo Orville Forkey (1950), George Friederic Wislicenus (1950), Francis Henry Horn (1950), Robert Freedman (1956), Franco Dino Rasetti (1953), Eben Francis Perkins III (1956), Theodore McKeldin (1956), Audrey Smid (1956), Sidney Painter (1954), John Charles Hubbard (1952), Ronald Taylor  Abercrombie (1952), Ralph Knieriem Witt (1951), Robert Fenwick (1951), John Lehman (1951), and Lowell Jacob Reed on his farm in New Hampshire (1953).

1958

He was represented in two additional exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art; MoMA; Photographs from the Museum Collection, November 26, 1958 – January 18, 1959; and 70 Photographers Look at New York, November 27, 1957 – April 15, 1958.

Mottar's portraits preserve the appearance of many American academics and intellectuals, and some from Europe.

In the collection of Johns Hopkins University are Mottar’s photographs of inventors and entrepreneurs, especially in the television industry, where he also photographed academics, campus views and student life, production of the JHU Science Review television program, and on one occasion, scenes of sixth-grade students using a mock-up television studio.

1959

Known for accepting dangerous and challenging architecture commissions, in 1959, he documented the building of the 28 Liberty Street, at one point assembling all of the construction workers (at a labour down-time cost of $10,000) for a multi-storey vertical panorama in which the grid structure of the steel and reinforced concrete facade of the skyscraper forms dozens of frames, each containing twenty or so cheering workers.