Robert W. Steinbach
American, 1911 - 1975Untitled, n.d.
Not on view
Intaglio on paper
Dimensions9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
Image: 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (14.6 × 10.8 cm)
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson in memory of Mr. Robert Martin Purcell, 1979.296
Robert Steinbach’s distinctive untitled image of a shop worker is rendered in an unusual negative image manner, reversing the order of the blacks and whites in his composition that gives it its striking, ghost image effect. Steinbach was interested in experimental printing processes, going so far as mixing his own media and introducing plastic in his printing procedures.
Steinbach was one of the many Flint area artists who benefited from the instruction of Jaroslav Brozik, a former Assistant Director and art instructor who taught at the Flint Institute of Arts from 1931 to 1945. Steinbach worked as a weekend art instructor at the Flint Institute of Arts in the late 1940s in addition to his full-time position at the General Motors Institute, where he was employed as a graphic artist and chart maker.
