Philip Stein

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

Biography

Stone learned the painting autodidact and later attended classes from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Even from its use in the Second World War, first in the U.S. 8th Air Force and then in the 9th U.S. Army, he painted some pictures during his time. In November 1945 he returned to the United States and visited as part of a GI - Vocational Training program again at the New School for Social Research evening classes. Early in 1946 he went with his wife Gertrude to Los Angeles, where he worked in the local film studios and evening courses attended the Chouinard School of Art. His last work in Hollywood was the stage set for the opera " Boris Godunov ". After the work had come into the studios because of the strike of 1947 to a standstill, he exercised his remaining balance of the GI Professional Development program to use and went in early 1948 to Mexico, where he first art school in San Miguel de Allende and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes ( INBA ) visited in Mexico City. Here he joined the Muralism movement and assisted to 1958, about ten years David Alfaro Siqueiros on several murals, which simply " Estaño " called him (Spanish for stone). Stone bears this name ever since as an artist name, and was in 1953 in Mexico City, his first solo exhibition.