Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella ( born June 13, 1877 in Muro Lucano, † November 5, 1946 in New York City ) was an American painter.

Life and work

Stella, born in Italy, moved to New York in 1896 to study medicine and pharmacology. In 1897 he began painting and studied at the Art Students League, then at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase. 1910, back in Europe, he visited Italy for a year and then went to Paris, where he met Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, as well as the Italian Futurists Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, and Gino Severini. 1912, back in New York, he set in 1913 in the seminal Armory Show from.

1923 Stella became an American citizen. 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.

Works ( selection)

• To 1913/14: Abstraction ( water lilies ) ( pastel on paper, 99,7 x74, 3 ​​cm; The Newark Museum, Newark)
• Ca 1917-18: Brooklyn Bridge ( Oil. 84 " x 76 " )