Nicolas de STAEL

Native placeSaint Petersburg, RUS
Birth1914
Dead placeAntibes, FRA
Died1955

Biography

De Staël was born in St. Petersburg. When the Russian Revolution broke out, he fled to Poland, where he lost his parents, and then moved to Brussels. In 1932 he entered the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and between 1933 and 1937 he visited a number of countries in Europe and North Africa. He settled in Paris in 1937 and decided to become a painter. He served in the Foreign Légion in Tunisia in 1939 during the Second World War, but the following year was discharged and went to live in Nice, where he met Magnelli, Arp, and Le Corbusier. Around 1942 he began using a non-representational style. He returned to Paris in 1943 and the following year became friends with Braque and André Lanskoy. He had his first solo show that year at Galerie l’Esquisse and began exhibiting with the Salon d’Automne. He participated in the Salon de Mai the following year. In 1948 he became a French citizen, and in 1950 he held his first solo show in New York. He committed suicide in Antibes in the south of France.

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