Roland Ginzel
Roland Ginzel was born in 1921 in Lincoln, Illinois and died February 25, 2021 in Lenox, Massachusetts. He was an artist and educator and is considered one of the pioneering abstractions of Chicago, Illinois. Upon retiring from teaching, he moved east residing in both New York City and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
Background
Honorary Doctorate, Lincoln College; Lincoln, IL
MFA, University of Iowa; Iowa City, IA (1950). Studied under Mauricio Lasansky.
BFA, School of the Art Institute; Chicago, IL (1948)
Post Graduate Studies, Slade School of Art; London, United Kingdom (1950)
Post Graduate Studies, Academia de Belle Arti; Rome, Italy
Teaching: University of Illinois at Chicago (forty years, retiring in 1985)
Normal Editions Projects
Ginzel participated in a print project at Normal Editions Workshop in the School of Art at Illinois State University in 1979.
Artist Roland Ginzel (1957)
(from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-06392r, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library)
Resources
Roland Ginzel, 1921-2021 newcity.com
Prints from Normal Editions
Untitled
Roland Ginzelone-color lithograph
9" x 12"
edition size: 10 arabic numeral impressions
signed by the artist
copyright 1979
NEW work #79-105