Philip Stein (painter)

Philip Stein , known under the stage name " Estaño " (born February 5, 1919 in Newark / New Jersey , † April 27, 2009 in Manhattan ), was an American painter.

Life

Stein first learned to paint self-taught and later attended classes at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan . During his time, he also painted a few pictures of his service in the Second World War , first in the 8th US Air Fleet and then in the 9th US Army . In November 1945 he returned to the United States and attended evening classes again at the New School for Social Research as part of a GI career development program. In early 1946 he went to Los Angeles with his wife Gertrude , where he worked in the local film studios and attended evening courses at the Chouinard School of Art . His last work in Hollywood was the set design for the opera Boris Godunov . After the work in the studios had come to a standstill because of the 1947 strike, he made use of his remaining credit in the GI career development program and went to Mexico in early 1948 , where he first studied at the art school in San Miguel de Allende and at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes ( INBA) in Mexico City . Here he joined the muralism movement and until 1958 assisted David Alfaro Siqueiros for around ten years with several murals, who simply called him “Estaño” ( Spanish for stone ). Stein has been using this name as a stage name ever since and had his first solo exhibition in Mexico City in 1953.

Web links

• Artist website
• Literature by and about Philip Stein (painter) in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times: Philip Stein, Muralist Who Adorned Village Vanguard Jazz Club, Dies at 90
2. ↑ Biography for artist Philip Stein (aka Estaño)