Robert Lepper was an American artist and art professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, who developed the country's first industrial design degree program.
16 Facts About Robert Lepper
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Robert Lepper was born September 10,1906, in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Lepper's parents were Elizabeth L and Charles W Lepper, a purchasing agent for a gas company.
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Robert Lepper attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduating in 1927.
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Robert Lepper then was an artist for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and lived with his parents.
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Robert Lepper taught art from beginning in 1930 and helped to establish the one of the country's first industrial design degree program at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1934.
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Robert Lepper defined visual perception elements: area, line, space, volume, color, value and texture - and then the equivalents in industrial design, published in the 1938 "The Elements of Visual Perception, linking art elements to manufacturing processes" article.
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Robert Lepper taught a class entitled "Individual and Social Analysis," in which he encouraged students to look at ordinary items from their daily lives as potential works of art.
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Robert Lepper created sculptures and murals, many of which reflect his interest in industrial objects.
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Robert Lepper developed the combination of powdered pigments and acrylic resin, or plastic, for artwork.
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Robert Lepper made several murals under the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, including post offices in Grayling, Michigan, and Caldwell, Ohio.
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Robert Lepper made the "highly acclaimed" mural of area industries for the Mining Industries Building at West Virginia University between 1940 and 1942.
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Robert Lepper made a number of public works: sculpture for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
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Robert Lepper married Helen Jewett of Pittsburgh on September 6,1933, in Damariscotta, Maine, where she was born.
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Robert Lepper died February 7,1991, when he was living in Pittsburgh.
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Carnegie established the Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture series in his honor.