Robert Richenburg (July 14, 1917 – October 10, 2006 in East Hampton, New York) was an abstract expressionist player based in New York City, whose paintings were widely venerated in the 1950s and 1960s. While a student of Hans Hofmann, Richenburg exhibited at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (later the Guggenheim) in 1950. The like year, he participated in the historic Ninth Street Art Exhibition, and behind taught at Pratt Institute along once Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb, Jack Tworkov, Philip Guston, Milton Resnick and Tony Smith. By 1961, critic Irving Sandler confirmed that “Richenburg emerges as one of the most forceful painters upon the New York Art Scene.”The Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others, purchased his work.
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