Biography
Robert Fehre (b. 1993) is an American photographer and artist. He was born in Turnersville, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia and raised in Deptford Township, New Jersey and Rotonda West, Florida. Fehre comes from a family of lithographers who migrated to New York City from Saxony, Germany in the early 1900's. He is also of Swedish and Galician Jewish decent. His Jewish ancestors originated in the Western Galicia region of present day Poland, who later migrated through Ellis Island in the early 1900's.
When he was in elementary school his parents moved from New Jersey to Southwest Florida in seek of a healthier lifestyle due to his father's illness. He began drawing and taking pictures as a teenager. After his parents separation Fehre returned to New Jersey where he attended Deptford Township High School, excelling in his fine art courses.
Robert Fehre enrolled at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2015. At Ringling, Fehre began establishing a photographic style; highly saturated, abstracted compositions of architecture.
Robert Fehre is known for his colorful photography which are an expression of love for the environment. Influenced by photographers such as Martin Parr, Andreas Gursky, and William Eggleston, Fehre is drawn to architectural compositions and traces of humanity found in urban settings. His photographs are published in Palm Beach by Aerin Lauder, Assouline Publishing, New York, NY (September 2019) and Palette Perfect Volume 2 by Lauren Wager, Hoaki Publishing, Barcelona, Spain (August 2022).
In the Summer of 2016, Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida acquired a large-scale photograph by Robert Fehre, currently displayed in the convention center's permanent public art collection.
He is also an established public art sculptor, designing large scale steel sculptures installed in public settings. Fehre was selected and commissioned by the City of West Palm Beach in 2020 to create a temporary public artwork titled, "Bhadrasana (The Gracious Pose)", the meditative steel sculpture offered a public space for relaxation and reflection. The sculpture was placed beside the Norton Museum of Art, along the intracoastal waterway in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.
Robert Fehre was granted the Artist-in-Residence position at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he taught fine art and darkroom photography techniques from 2018-2022. In 2022, Fehre donated his first public art sculpture "Bhadrasana (The Gracious Pose)" to the art school, which is on permanent display on the school's campus.
Commissioned by the McCraney Property Company, on behalf of the Village of Royal Palm Beach, Florida in 2023, Robert Fehre designed and installed his largest to date public art sculpture titled “Transcendence”. This monumental stainless steel sculpture “Transcendence” stands 16 ½’ ft high with a diameter of 8’ ft. "Transcendence is a sculpture that represents the evolutionary stages of one's individual life, reaching a point of enlightenment and oneness with the universe and life itself.”