Nicolas de Staël

E101668

Nicolas de Staël was a Russian-born French painter renowned for his thickly impastoed, abstract and semi-abstract compositions that bridged post-war abstraction and figurative art.

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Nicolas de Staël canonical 4
Françoise de Staël 1
Nicolas de Staël von Holstein 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf abstract painter
modern artist
painter
person
activePeriod 1940s
1950s
associatedWith École de Paris
surface form: School of Paris

post-war European art
birthCountry Russian Empire
birthDate 1914-01-05
birthPlace St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
causeOfDeath fall from a building
suicide
deathCountry France
deathDate 1955-03-16
deathPlace Antibes
education Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Brussels)
surface form: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
emigratedTo France
familyName Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
surface form: de Staël
field painting
fullName Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nicolas de Staël von Holstein
givenName Nicholas
surface form: Nicolas
influenced contemporary abstract painters
post-war European abstraction
influencedBy Cubism
Fauvism
Georges Braque
Henri Matisse
knownFor abstract compositions
bridge between abstraction and figuration
semi-abstract compositions
thick impasto technique
language French
Russian
livedIn Antibes
France
Nice
Paris
movement Abstract art
Orphism
surface form: Lyrical abstraction

Abstract expressionism
surface form: Tachisme
nationality French
Russian
notableWork Akragas
surface form: Agrigente

Parc des Princes
surface form: Le Parc des Princes

Les Footballeurs
Nature morte au pichet
Paysage méditerranéen
servedIn French Foreign Legion
spouse Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
surface form: Françoise de Staël

Jeannine Guillou
style abstract
figure painting
landscape painting
semi-abstract
still life painting
workCharacteristic dense layered surfaces
large flat color planes
strong contrasts of light and color

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The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël fullName Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Nicolas de Staël von Holstein
Nicolas de Staël familyName Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: de Staël
Nicolas de Staël spouse Nicolas de Staël self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Françoise de Staël
Musée Marmottan Monet hasWorkBy Nicolas de Staël
National Museum of Western Art hasWorkBy Nicolas de Staël
Musée de Grenoble hasWorkBy Nicolas de Staël