Robert Ormerod Preusser

1919-1992

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BORN IN

Houston, Texas

KNOWN FOR

Abstract expressionist mixed media, teaching

From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist painter, preferring mixed media, and also was an art educator.  He said that his constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and intuitive approach. (Herskovic 270)

Pruesser was born in Houston and studied there with Ola McNeill Davidson; in Chicago at the Chicago School of Design; and with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Robert Wolff; the Newcomb School of Art in New Orleans; and the Art Center School in Los Angeles.