T. E. Breitenbach

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T. E. Breitenbach
Born	Thomas E. Breitenbach (1951-07-29) July 29, 1951 (age 73) Queens, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Self-taught
Known for	Painting
Awards	Rome Prize Fellowship

Thomas E. Breitenbach (born July 29, 1951 in Queens, New York)^[1] is a self-taught American artist best known for his painting Proverbidioms, a raucous and comical depiction of over 300 common proverbs and clichés. He also collaborated with Jim Morrison of The Doors, shortly before Morrison's 1971 death, on a painting intended for use on his An American Prayer album.

He received the Rome Prize Fellowship in visual arts. Breitenbach declined the second year of the fellowship and, inspired by the castles and museums of Europe, returned home determined to build a castle-studio to house his art and eventually become a museum. During the planning stages he painted Proverbidioms and later published it.