Koppe, Richard, 1916-

Educator, painter, and sculptor Richard Koppe was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 4, 1916. He studied at the St. Paul School of Art with Cameron Booth, LeRoy Turner and Nicoli Cikovsky. He also attended the New Bauhaus in Chicago, Illinois with Kepes and Archipenko. He has received prizes from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, 1948, 1950, and 1960, and from the San Francisco Art Association (1948).

Mr. Koppe is a modern artist who is quite well known for his abstract painting. Some of his best paintings are the "Bejeweled Bird," and "Reflection." Mr. Koppe's work may be seen at the Smith College Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Syracuse University, and the Brooklyn Museum.

He has exhibited at nearly every major museum in the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of art and the Artists' Gallery in New York City.

Mr. Koppe was a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology for nineteen years. In 1963 he became professor of Art at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

From the guide to the Richard Koppe Papers, 1939-1963, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)