|
Nicolas de Stael Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 35975 Abstract Figure
mk107
1954
Oil painting
73x91cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 35976 The Night of Paris
mk107
1954
Oil painting
46x61cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 35977 Abstract Figure
mk107
1954
Oil painting
73x100cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 35978 The Study of Nude
mk107
1954
150x92cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 35979 Red Sky
mk107
1954
Oil painting
60x81cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
Nicolas de Stael
Russian Painter.1914-1955
was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles Nocolas de Stael was born in the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, (a member of the Stael von Holstein family, and the last Commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress) and his wife, Olga Sakhanskaya. De Stael's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; Both, his father and stepmother, would die in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Stael would be sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family (1922). He eventually studied art at the Brussels Acad??mie royale des beaux-arts (1932). In the 1930s, he travelled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco (1936) (where he first met his companion Jeannine Guillou, also a painter and who would appear in some of his paintings from 1941-1942) and Algeria. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of Byzantine style icons and watercolors at the Galerie Dietrich et Cie, Brussels. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1939 and was demobilized in 1941.
. Related Artists to Nicolas de Stael: | Leslie Ward | edouard Joseph Dantan | Jacobus Hendrikus Maris | Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz | Hills, Anna Althea |
|
|