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Robert De Niro, Sr.

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Robert Mario De Niro, Sr. (1922 January 171993 May 3) was an abstract expressionist painter. He is perhaps best known as the father of actor Robert De Niro, Jr.

Biography[edit]

Born in Syracuse, New York to an Italian American father, Mario DeNiro who was originally of Neopolitan descent, and an Irish mother, De Niro studied with Hans Hofmann at his Provincetown summer school where he met fellow student Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. The couple moved into a large, airy loft in New York’s Greenwich Village, where they were able to paint. The couple surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends including writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and actress and famous Berlin dancer Valeska Gert. Admiral and De Niro separated shortly after their son, Robert De Niro, Jr. was born in August of 1943.

College[edit]

De Niro attended Black Mountain College in the 1950s. Being a self proclaimed perfectionist, De Niro painted and repainted his canvases again and again. He would do hundreds of studies before he decided to paint the subject. De Niro was prone to bouts of depression and this encumbered him throughout his life.

Death[edit]

Robert De Niro, Sr. died at age 71 on a Monday morning on May 3rd 1993 in New York City. He is interred at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

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