{{short description|American sculptor}}
{{Infobox person | name = Hugo Robus | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1885 | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = January 14, 1964 | death_place = Ramapo, New York, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Cleveland School of Art<br/>National Academy of Design<br/>Académie de la Grande Chaumière | employer = | occupation = Sculptor | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Hugo Robus''' (1885 – January 14, 1964) was an American sculptor. He co-founded an art colony in New City, New York. His sculptures are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
==Early life== Robus was born in 1885 in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name="smithsonianhugorobus">{{cite web |title=Hugo Robus |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/hugo-robus-4088 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |accessdate=November 19, 2018}}</ref> He attended the Cleveland School of Art in his hometown, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.<ref name="smithsonianhugorobus"/><ref name="journalnewsobit">{{cite news |title=Sculptor Hugo Robus Of New City Is Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/163032917/?terms=%22Hugo%2BRobus%22 |accessdate=November 19, 2018 |work=The Journal News|location=White Plains, New York |date=January 15, 1964|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}</ref> [[File:Sculpture by Hugo Robus in Munising MI USA USPO.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''Chippewa Legend'' (1939), relief sculpture by Robus at the post office in Munising, Michigan]]
==Career== Robus was a painter until the 1920s, when he became a sculptor.<ref name="journalnewsobit"/> He established an art colony in New City, New York with Henry Varnum Poor and Martha Kantor in 1918.<ref name="therecordobit">{{cite news |title=Sculptor Hugo Robus Of New City Is Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/491092457/?terms=%22Hugo%2BRobus%22 |accessdate=November 19, 2018 |work=The Record |location=Hackensack, New Jersey |date=January 15, 1964|page=54|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}</ref>
His sculptures were exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.<ref name="journalnewsobit"/> They later became part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref name="journalnewsobit"/> the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,<ref name="therecordobit"/><ref name="momahugorobus">{{cite web |title=Hugo Robus |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/4968 |website=Museum of Modern Art |accessdate=November 19, 2018}}</ref><ref name="methugorobus">{{cite web |title=Hugo Robus (American, 1885–1964) |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/486780 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |accessdate=November 19, 2018}}</ref> as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.<ref name="smithsonianhugorobus"/>
==Personal life and death== Robus resided at 567 South Mountain Road in New City, New York.<ref name="therecordobit"/> He had a son, Hugo Robus Jr.<ref name="journalnewsobit"/>
Robus died in 1964 at the Ramapo General Hospital in Ramapo, New York, at age 78.<ref name="journalnewsobit"/><ref name="therecordobit"/>
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