Background
Robert W. Fichter was born in 1939 in Fort Meyers, Florida, United States.
Robert W. Fichter was born in 1939 in Fort Meyers, Florida, United States.
Fichter earned a BFA in 1963 from Indiana University in Bloomington. He earned an MFA in 1966 from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he studied painting and printmaking.
An assistant curator of exhibitions for George Eastman House in Rochester (1966-68), he then moved west, working for UCLA as an assistant professor (1968-70), a lecturer (1971) and visiting associate professor (1971). Since 1972 he has been working as associate professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University in Tallahassee.