R. B. Kitaj

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R. B. Kitaj was an American-born British painter known for his intellectually rich, figurative works and his association with the London School of artists.

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R. B. Kitaj canonical 1
Ronald Brooks Kitaj 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American emigrant to the United Kingdom
British artist
painter
person
printmaker
associatedWith David Hockney
Frank Auerbach
London School of painters
Lucian Freud
awardReceived Golden Lion for Painting at the Venice Biennale
birthDate 1932-10-29
birthPlace Cleveland, Ohio, United States
child Lem Dobbs
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
deathDate 2007-10-21
educatedAt Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Cooper Union
Royal College of Art
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
familyName Kitaj
fieldOfWork painting
printmaking
fullName Ronald Brooks Kitaj
linked to: R. B. Kitaj
givenName Ronald
hasWorkInCollection Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate
influenced British figurative painters
influencedBy Franz Kafka
German Expressionism
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cézanne
Walter Benjamin
movement London School
Pop art (influenced)
linked to: Pop art

figurative art
nationality American
British
notableFor complex, literary and philosophical references in art
intellectually rich figurative paintings
notableWork If Not, Not
The Autumn of Central Paris (after Walter Benjamin)
The Jewish School
The Ohio Gang
placeOfDeath Los Angeles, California, United States
religion Judaism
residence London
linked to: London, England

Los Angeles
servedIn United States Army
United States Merchant Marine
spouse Elisabeth Furse
Sandra Fisher

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R. B. Kitaj fullName Ronald Brooks Kitaj
linked to: R. B. Kitaj