User:Eurodog/sandbox221

Robert Herzberg (né Robert Albert George Herzberg; 22 May 1866 – October 1960 Michigan) was a German-born American painter and ilustrator.

Career
Herzberg studied art in Toledo, New York, and Chicago. In 1922, he founded the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Art (founded as the Detroit School of Applied Art), which flourished until about 1932. He studied with Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) and William Frederick Foster, A.N.A. (1882–1953) at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1911. Foster was known for female figure and genre painting, magazine illustration.

Herzberg also studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York.

His works have been exhibited in Detroit at the Scarab Club.

Faculty

 * 1927–19??: Belle Snelgrove (née Isabelle Pearl Snelgrove; 1887–1980) taught commercial art. She was a 1922 graduate in art from Olivet College and that same year began teaching art in Colorado Springs, then Alva College in Oklahoma. She later taught at the University of North Dakota.

Residence
His residence in 1960 was split between New York, Birmingham, Michigan, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.