Robert Slutzky was an American abstract painter and architectural theorist.
11 Facts About Robert Slutzky
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Robert Slutzky was the chair of the department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critic of the International Style.
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Robert Slutzky's paintings were exhibited in museums on the East Coast.
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Robert Slutzky graduated from Cooper Union in 1951 and he attended Yale School of Art, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1954.
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Robert Slutzky began his career by teaching architectural theory at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked with John Hejduk, Bernhard Hoesli and Colin Rowe.
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Robert Slutzky later taught at Cornell University and the Pratt Institute.
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Robert Slutzky taught in department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2005, where he served as the chair.
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Robert Slutzky received the G Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001.
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Robert Slutzky was married twice; his second wife, Joan Ockman, is an architectural historian and theorist that currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale School of Architecture.
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Robert Slutzky had a daughter, Zoe, and he resided in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Slutzky died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on May 3,2005, in Abington, Pennsylvania.