Albert Edward Sterner

Albert Edward Sterner studied at Académie Julian and King Edward's School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting, lithography and art of drawing. Work by Albert Edward Sterner is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

• Name — Albert Sterner • Birth Name — Albert Edward Sterner • Born — 8 March 1863 • Birthplace — London, United Kingdom • Died — 16 December 1946 • Education — Académie Julian École des Beaux-Arts

Sterner was born to a Jewish family in London, and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham. After a brief period in Germany, he studied drawing in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger. He eventually moved to the United States in 1879 to join his family who had previously moved to Chicago. His brother was the architect Frederick Sterner, who had a career in Chicago and Denver before joining his brother in New York.

• Illustration — Sterner painting war posters in 1918 • Illustration — Nude, circa 1916 He began doing lithography, painting, and illustrations. He opened a studio in New York in 1885 and began contributing illustrations to magazines including Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, and Collier's. In 1888 he became a student at Académie Julian in Paris. He has illustrated G. W. Curtis' Prue and I (which established his reputation as a black-and-white artist), Coppée's Tales (1891), Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1894), and Mary Augusta Ward's' Eleanor (1900) and The Marriage of William Ashe (1905). His oil painting The Bachelor received the bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. In 1918, he returned to America and began teaching at the Art Students League in New York. Institutions that have exhibited his work include the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Sterner's awards include the Carnegie Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1941. His New York Times obituary stated that he was perhaps best known for his portraits, but "he was also noted for his nudes, religious subjects, landscapes, still-life work and, in his earlier days, his book and magazine illustrations."

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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Born in 1863 at London. It is also recorded that albert Edward Sterner died in 1946 at New York City.