St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Robert Rauschenberg was born in 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas, and was in the Navy from 1943 to 1945. In 1946/7 he studied at the Kansas City Art Instituzte. and for a brief period at the Académie Julian in Paris, but more formatively at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers. In the early 1950s he created monochromatic white, black and red paintings. Later he embarked on his innovative “combine paintings“, w... more