Nicholas de stael biography
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Nicolas de Staël | |
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Born | January 5, 1914 Saint Petersburg |
Died | March 16, 1955 Antibes |
Nationality | French nationality, of Russian origin |
Education | Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts |
Field | Collage, illustration and textiles |
Works | View Complete Works |
Born in St.
Petersburg, Russia on January 5, 1914, Nicolas de Staël was French by origin and his father was vice-governor of the fortress of Peter and Paul. During the Russian Revolution, his family fled from Russia in October 1917, and was exiled to Poland in 1919, where his parents died.
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He was raised along with his sisters in Brussels by a Russian couple.
In 1933, at the age of 16 Nicolas took up a course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1932-1934) and discovered the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Matisse, Braque, Soutine and Cézanne.
In the late 1930s, de Stael enlisted with the French Foreign Legion and took a ventured to Europe and North Africa. He later moved to Paris in 1938 w