부산대학교 도서관

American, 20th century, male. Born 8 June 1934, in Berlin; died 14 March 1993, in New York. Painter, printmaker. Figures, portraits, landscapes, animals, mythology. Figurative Expressionism, Political Art. Rhino Horn Group. Peter Dean was born to Jewish parents during the rise of the Nazi regime. In 1938, when he was four years old, his family left Berlin and moved to the United States. They settled in the Bronx where Dean was raised. Dean received his bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Wisconsin in 1956. There he studied art history and became passionate about painting, although he never took a studio art class. After graduation, he was hired as a mining engineer for the Anaconda Copper Company in Montana and Nevada. Dean meanwhile devoted his free time to painting. Dean moved back to New York in 1962 with a desire to be a full-time painter. He studied with French painter André Girard at the City College of New York. During the late 1960s, Dean co-founded two artist groups that were motivated by political art. The first, called the Torque Group, was founded in ...