Nicolas Untersteller
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Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967) was a French painter.
Early life
He was born in
Career
In 1930, he was a professor of painting and drawing at the Academy Yvon and created in 1931 a school of painting in Metz and presented his exhibition "Return of Rome". From 1933 to 1934, he was a boarder at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Spain.
A member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Untersteller taught fresco at the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1937. He was appointed a member of the Board of Fine Arts of Paris in 1940. From 1941 to 1948 he was a professor, head of the painting workshop. Among his pupils were Jean-Marie Patel, better known today under his pseudonym Arcabas, painter of sacred art, Henriette Lambert , Antoine Camilleri and Roger Forissier . In 1948 he was appointed Director of the École Nationale.[1]
Personal life
He married Hélène Delaroche , also a painter, in 1929. In 1934 his daughter Marguerite-Marie was born in Metz. The year 1940 saw the birth of his son Louis-Paul, at Sèvres.
References
- ^ Gloc, Marie (2008). Nicolas Untersteller. pp. pages 56 –61.