Robert Ormerod Preusser
1919-1992
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.
