Nicolas de stael biography of barack
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Nicolas de Stael ()
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The war years were difficult for Stael as art materials were hard to come by. However, in Nice he was able to widen his circle of acquaintances.
Nicolas de stael biography of barack
He met an important art dealer, Jeanne Bucher, and absorbed a range of artistic ideas from artists like Wassily Kandinsky () and other Russian Abstract painters, as well as Jean Arp (&#;), and Robert Delaunay (&#;). By the time he returned to Paris in , he was a self-declared abstract artist.
The portraits he had created of Jeannine, which reveal influences of Renaissance master El Greco (&#;) and Picasso's 'Blue Period', were now a thing of the past. In Paris, Stael came into contact with Georges Braque, the co-inventor of Cubism, from whom he gained a keen interest in collage.
Sadly however, towards the end of the war, his partner Jeannine died as a result of complications from an attempted abortion.
In , Stael had his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie L'Esquisse, and within a couple of year