Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella (born June 13, 1877 in Muro Lucano , Italy , † November 5, 1946 in New York City ; born Giuseppe Michele Stella ) was an Italian-American painter.
life and work
Stella, born in Italy, moved to New York in 1896 to study medicine and pharmacology. There he adopted the English version of his first name Joseph instead of Giuseppe. In 1897 he began painting and studied at the Art Students League , then at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase . In 1910, back in Europe, he visited Italy for a year and then went to Paris, where he met Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso and the Italian futurists Umberto Boccioni , Carlo Carrà and Gino Severini . Back in New York in 1912, he exhibited on the groundbreaking Armory Show in 1913 .
In 1923, Stella received American citizenship. Between 1920 and 1930 he made several trips abroad.
Until the beginning of the 1920s, his painting was influenced by the futurists in Paris. After that, his art was influenced by realism , surrealism and abstract painting . Towards the end of his life he made small collages in the style of Paul Klee and Arthur Dove .
Work (selection)
- around 1913/14: Abstraction (water lilies) (pastel on paper; 99.7 × 74.3 cm; The Newark Museum , Newark)
- 1917-18: Brooklyn Bridge (Oil. 84 "x 76")
Web links
- Biography on Joseph Stella
- artcyclopedia
- Joseph Stella on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Voice of the City: Joseph Stella and the Jazz Age , newarkmuseumedu.org, accessed June 28, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stella, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stella, Giuseppe Michele (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muro Lucano |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1946 |
| Place of death | new York |