| Robert Slutzky | |
| Birth Date: | November 27, 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Death Date: | May 3, 2005 |
| Death Place: | Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education: | Cooper Union Yale School of Art |
| Occupation: | Painter, architectural theorist |
| Spouse: | 2, including Joan Ockman |
| Children: | 1 daughter |
Robert Slutzky (November 27, 1929 - May 3, 2005) was an American abstract painter and architectural theorist. He was the chair of the department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critic of the International Style. His paintings were exhibited in museums on the East Coast.
Slutzky was born on November 27, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York City.[1] He graduated from Cooper Union in 1951 and he attended Yale School of Art,[2] where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1954.[1]
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.[3] With the latter, Slutzky co-authored a collection of essays in which he criticized the International Style. Slutzky later taught at Cornell University and the Pratt Institute.[2] From 1968 to 1990, he taught at his alma mater, Cooper Union.[1] He taught in department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2005,[3] where he served as the chair.[4] He received the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2001.[2]
Slutzsky was also an abstract painter,[4] with works exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,[2] and held by the Whitney Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[1] [5]
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.[6] Slutzky had a daughter, Zoe,[2] and he resided in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.[1]
Slutzky died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on May 3, 2005, in Abington, Pennsylvania.[7]