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Stella Steyn BIOGRAPHY
1907 - 1987. Known for: Modernist artwork in various mediums.
Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized... Read full biography
Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized her as "a pupil of genius" (Belfast Observer, 15 June 1930). She was selected for numerous group... Read full biography
Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized her as "a pupil of genius" (Belfast Observer, 15 June 1930). She was selected for numerous group exhibitions including the RHA and the 1929 Contemporary Irish Art exhibition in New York. In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris to study at the Académie... Read full biography
Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized her as "a pupil of genius" (Belfast Observer, 15 June 1930). She was selected for numerous group exhibitions including the RHA and the 1929 Contemporary Irish Art exhibition in New York. In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris to study at the Académie Scandinave and at La Grande Chaumière. In Paris she met James Joyce, who later asked her to provide illustrations for Finnegan's Wake, and was briefly courted by Samuel Beckett. In 1931 she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Germany, then the most innovative... Read full biography
Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized her as "a pupil of genius" (Belfast Observer, 15 June 1930). She was selected for numerous group exhibitions including the RHA and the 1929 Contemporary Irish Art exhibition in New York. In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris to study at the Académie Scandinave and at La Grande Chaumière. In Paris she met James Joyce, who later asked her to provide illustrations for Finnegan's Wake, and was briefly courted by Samuel Beckett. In 1931 she enrolled at the Bauhaus in Germany, then the most innovative art school in Europe. She was the only Irish artist to have studied there and its teachings convinced her to adhere to her avant-garde p... Read full biography
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Of Russian and German extraction, Stella Steyn was born in Dublin and educated at Alexandra College and the Metropolitan School of Art. She was an outstanding art student and her tutors recognized her as "a pupil of genius" (Belfast Observer, 15 June 1930).
She was selected for numerous group exhibitions including the RHA and the 1929 Contemporary Irish Art exhibition in New York. In 1926, in the company of her mother and fellow artist Hilda Roberts, she went to Paris to study at the Académie Scandinave and at La Grande Chaumière. In Paris she met James Joyce, who later asked her to provide illustrations for Finnegan's Wake, and was briefly courted by Samuel Beckett.
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