Name Robert Nickle Role Artist | Died 1980 Education University of Michigan | |
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Artwork Untitled, Untitled (Enclosed), B5, Untitled Collage, Untitled (black on orange) |
Robert Wienert Nickle (May 22, 1919 – November 12, 1980) was a 20th-century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage work.
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Nickle was born in Saginaw, Michigan. In 1943, he graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied architecture and design. He enlisted in the Navy that May, and served in the South Pacific.
![Robert Nickle Exhibitions Gallery 400](https://alchetron.com/cdn/robert-nickle-6643e3c3-9d27-47fb-a503-726453d6fda-resize-750.jpeg)
Nickle worked and taught primarily in Chicago, Illinois where he was affiliated with the New Bauhaus under László Moholy-Nagy, then with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
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Exhibits
![Robert Nickle Robert Nickle Corbett vs Dempsey](https://alchetron.com/cdn/robert-nickle-979af965-aa2d-4873-a27d-64cb41ae70a-resize-750.jpeg)
Robert Nickle's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Carnegie Institute Museum and the National Gallery in Washington.
![Robert Nickle 1970s Collage by Robert Nickle New Bauhaus For Sale at 1stdibs](https://alchetron.com/cdn/robert-nickle-fa93d942-ae67-4ffe-b5a7-93ac477faab-resize-750.jpeg)
![Robert Nickle Robert W Nickle Works on Sale at Auction Biography](https://alchetron.com/cdn/robert-nickle-4ba63806-c686-41f8-9307-50107c86591-resize-750.jpg)