Hugo Weber

Hugo Edmond Weber (1918–1971) was a Swiss-born, American artist and arts educator. Weber was known as an abstract, avant‐garde artist active in Chicago, Paris and New York City between the 1940s–1971. He worked mainly in painting but was also known to work in bronze for sculpture.

Biography Weber was born in Basel, Switzerland in 4 May 1918. He studied painting at the University of Basel, studying with artist . He moved to Paris, France by 1939 and was studying art with sculptor Marcel Gimond. Weber's students include artist June Leaf and designer Richard Schultz. He worked collaboratively with Emerson Woelffer from IIT, in designing the Chicago-based Jazz Ltd. building's avant-garde room.

From 1955 until 1960, Weber lived in Paris, then moved to New York City. Weber was a gestural artist, but he was not rooted from American Action Painting like many of the others of the New York School of American Abstract Expressionism but rather from the European "style informel". National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and others. Weber's bust portrait in bronze of his friend, architect Mies van der Rohe is in the Crown Hall of IIT Campus.