Albert Edward Sterner (March 8, 1863 – December 16, 1946) was a British-American illustrator and painter.
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| Born | Albert Edward Sterner March 8, 1863 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | December 16, 1946 (aged 83) |
| Alma mater | Académie Julian École des Beaux-Arts |
Early life edit
Sterner was born to a Jewish family in London, and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. After a brief period in Germany, he studied drawing in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger.[1] He eventually moved to the United States in 1879 to join his family who had previously moved to Chicago.[2][3] His brother was the architect Frederick Sterner, who had a career in Chicago and Denver before joining his brother in New York.[4]
Career edit
He began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began contributing illustrations to magazines including Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Collier's. In 1888 he became a student at Académie Julian in Paris.[2][3] He has illustrated G. W. Curtis' Prue and I (which established his reputation as a black-and-white artist), Coppée's Tales (1891), Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1894), and Mary Augusta Ward's' Eleanor (1900) and The Marriage of William Ashe (1905). His oil-painting "The Bachelor" received the bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900.[5]
In 1918, he returned to America and began teaching at the Art Students League in New York.[2][6][7]
Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[2]
Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941.[2]
His New York Times obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations."[8]
Notable students edit
References edit
- ^ Adams, Clinton (1983). American Lithographers, 1900–1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. p. 17.
- ^ a b c d e "Singular Impressions: Albert Sterner". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Artist Biography: Albert Sterner". Spanierman Gallery LLC. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ Christopher Gray (June 29, 2003). "Streetscapes/The Frederick Sterner House, at 139 East 19th Street; An Architect Who Turned Brownstones Into Gems". The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
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Jacobs, Joseph; Haneman, Frederick T. (1905). "Sterner, Albert Edward". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 553.
- ^ "Instructors and Lecturers - Past and Present". Art Students League. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ "Celebrating the Line". Art Students League. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ "Albert Sterner, Noted Artist, 83; Portraitist, Lecturer, Teacher of Art Is Dead--Won Many Awards at Exhibitions Contributor to Magazines Wrote on Art Subjects". New York Times. 17 December 1946.
- ^ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
Further reading edit
- Flint, Ralph. Albert Sterner: His Life and his Art (1927).
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