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R B Kitaj (1932-2007)

Aliases: Ronald Brooks; R. B. Kitaj; Ronald B. Kitaj; Ronald Brooks Kitaj

Professions: Painter

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R B Kitaj Biography

(b cleveland, oh, 29 oct 1932). american painter and printmaker. born ronald brooks and brought up by his mother and viennese jewish stepfather, at an early age he developed a cosmopolitan outlook and compassionate socialism that had a permanent effect on him. fired by discussions about the republican cause in the spanish civil war and by the seam of european history represented by his stepfather and stepgrandmother, who also came to live with the family, he educated himself as much through various voyages as a merchant seaman in latin america as through spells at art schools, first at the cooper union for the advancement of science and art, new york, in 1950 and in 1951–2 at the akademie der bildenden künste, vienna, under albert paris von gütersloh. after his marriage in 1953 to elsi roessler, a fellow american student whom he had met in vienna, he made his first extended visit to the quiet catalan port of san felíu de guixols, to which he was to return on numerous occasions over the next 30 years. from 1955 to the end of 1957 he served in the american army near fontainebleau, where he drew pictures of the russian tanks and installations for war games.

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