Robert Nickle

{{short description|American artist (1919–1980)}}

{{for|the 19th-century English army officer|Robert Nickle (British Army officer)}}

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|name=Robert Nickle

|birth_name=Robert Wienert Nickle

|birth_date={{birth date|1919|5|22}}

|birth_place=Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1980|11|12|1919|5|22}}

|nationality=American

|alma_mater=University of Michigan

|occupation=Artist

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Robert Wienert Nickle (May 22, 1919 – November 12, 1980)U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 was a 20th-century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage work.

Nickle was born in Saginaw, Michigan. In 1943, he graduated from the University of Michigan where he studied architecture and design. He enlisted in the Navy that May, and served in the South Pacific.Robert Nickle in the U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010

Nickle worked and taught primarily in Chicago, Illinois where he was affiliated with the New Bauhaus under László Moholy-Nagy, then with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).