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R.B. KITAJ

BIOGRAPHY

1932

Born in Cleveland,Ohio, U.S.A

1950-51

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York

1951-52

Academy of Fine Art, Vienna

1957-59

Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University

1959-61

Royal College of Art London

1976

Organised The Human Clay, controversial exhibition of figurative paintings at Hayward Gallery

1978-79

Artist in residence at Dartmouth College, US

 

Returns to London

1981-82

Lived and worked in Paris for a year

1982

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

1983

Marries Sandra Fisher

1985

Elected to the Royal Academy

1989

Published First Diasporist Manifesto

1996

Commissioned portrait of Mahler for Vienna Opera

1997 Moves to Los Angeles

1999

Exhibition at the National Gallery, London: Kitaj In The Aura of Cézanne And Other Masters

  Lectures on Van Gogh at LACMA: My Vincent
2001 Begins to write his Autobiography, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter
2004 Lectures at UCLA and USC
2007 Yale University Press publishes Second Diasporist Manifesto. Kitaj dies at his home in Los Angeles a week before his 75th birthday.