Richard Artschwager Photo © Dietmar Schneider, Köln

Richard Artschwager

1923
Born to a German father and Russian mother in Washington, D.C.

1933
Moved with his family to New Mexico, keenly interested in art and science

1941
Enrolled in Cornell University to study chemistry

1942–46
WWII service in Europe

1948
B.A. from Cornell University

1949
Studied at the studio school of Amedee Ozenfant, supported by odd jobs, including working as a baby photographer. Caught between choices of pursuing a career as an artist or entering various trades

1953
Apprentice to a cabinetmaker, designed and produced first furniture

1958
Loft fire, financial difficulties

1959
First exhibition in New York

Richard Artschwager lived and worked in Upstate New York.
He died February 9, 2013 in Albany, New York.

2003–2004
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
‘Up and Down and Back and Forth’, Deutsche Bank & Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, Berlin, Germany
‘Paintings, Drawings, and Objects 1960–2002’, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

1994
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
‘Archipelago’, Lenbachhaus/Kunstforum München, Germany

1992
Documenta IX, Kassel
‘Connections: Richard Artschwager’, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1985
Kunsthalle Basel, traveled to Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Ebbemuseum, CAPC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux

1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1982
Documenta VII, Kassel

1981
‘Richard Artschwager: Paintings and Objects from 1962–1979’
39th Venice Biennale

1979
‘Richard Artschwager's Theme(s)’, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

1978
‚Zu Gast in Hamburg – Richard Artschwager’, Kunstverein Hamburg

1976
37th Venice Biennale

1975
‘Door, Window, Table, Basket, Mirror, Rug’, Leo Castelli, New York

1968
Documenta IV, Kassel
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York