Stephen de staebler sculptor rodin

  • Stephen De Staebler (March 24, 1933 – May 13, 2011) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and educator, he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze.
  • De Staebler drew inspiration from Moore, Giacometti, Rodin, and Egyptian stone pharaohs—but in the impossible sense of their having been the models for.
  • Stephen De Staebler's sculptures in ceramic and bronze pay homage to antiquity while capturing the mosaic of relationships connecting the body and earth.

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    About the Book

    "Clay can be a metaphor for many things. inom made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."—Stephen De Staebler

    Over the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that includes Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti as well as the art of the ancient Americas, Egypt, and Greece, De Staebler developed a sculptural vocabulary uniquely his own. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1950s, De Staebler was among the first students of the legendary Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley. In conjunction with the Bay Area Figurative movement, De Staebler helped to infuse the existentialist agenda of Abstract Expressionism with a profound humanism.

    Illuminating the significance of De Staebler’s practice as never before, curator Timothy Anglin Burgard analyzes the artist’s major pieces. Poet and cri

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    Stephen De Staebler

    American sculptor, printmaker, and educator (1933 - 2011)

    Stephen De Staebler

    Born(1933-03-24)March 24, 1933

    Webster Groves, Missouri, U.S.

    DiedMay 13, 2011(2011-05-13) (aged 78)

    Berkeley, California, U.S.

    Other namesStephen de Staebler, Stephen Destaebler
    EducationBlack Mountain College,
    Brooklyn Museum Art School
    Alma materPrinceton University,
    University of California, Berkeley
    Occupation(s)sculptor, ceramicist, educator
    Employer(s)San Francisco State University,
    San Francisco Art Institute
    MovementCalifornia Clay Movement
    SpouseDona Merced Curley (m. 1958–1996; death)
    Parents
    • Herbert Conrad De Staebler (father)
    • Juliette Hoiles De Staebler (mother)

    Stephen dem Staebler (March 24, 1933 – May 13, 2011) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and educator, he was best recognized for his work in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler's figurative sculpt

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    This seventh exhibition in the series Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House is subtitled Inspired by Rodin. The French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) created highly original figure studies that have inspired generations of American artists. The twelve works on view in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, selected from public collections in the Northeast, are indebted to Rodin's ability to capture the moods and manners of the human body.

    While Rodin worked in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his importance was quickly understood in the United States. Numerous American artists, such as Malvina Hoffman, Andrew O'Connor, and William Zorach, responded to his creative energies. More recently, contemporary artists whose work focuses on the body, including Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, and George Segal, can credit the power of Rodin's imagination in their own work. With the profound ability to fuse the division between figuration and abstraction, R