Robert Peter Mangold was born on October 19, 1937 in North Tonawanda, USA. He attracted attention for his talent for drawing while still at school.

Following this talent, he studied abstract art at the Cleveland School of Art from 1956 to 1959.

After marrying the artist Sylvia Plimack, they both moved to New York in the early 1960s. There, Mangold studied the paintings of famous artists as a supervisor at the Museum of Modern Art and finally completed his studies at Yale in 1963.

In the following years, he organized exhibitions around the world and also became well-known in Germany through his three-time participation in the documenta in Kassel.

On October 18, 1998, he was awarded the Jawlensky Prize at the Wiesbaden Museum. In his laudatory speech, Lord Mayor Diehl praised his innovative oeuvre as remarkably consistent.

Mangold thanked the museum, the sponsors of his exhibitions and finally the city of Wiesbaden as a whole, which had welcomed him so warmly.

He then signed the city's Golden Book.