Albert Sterner

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Albert Edward Sterner (March 8, 1863 – December 16, 1946) was a British-American illustrator and painter.

Early life

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.{{Cite book|title=American Lithographers, 1900–1960|last=Adams|first=Clinton|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|year=1983|location=Albuquerque|pages=17}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/realestate/streetscapes-frederick-sterner-house-139-east-19th-street-architect-who-turned.html?pagewanted=2 |title=Streetscapes/The Frederick Sterner House, at 139 East 19th Street; An Architect Who Turned Brownstones Into Gems |author=Christopher Gray |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 29, 2003 |access-date=March 19, 2011}}

Career

File:Albert Sterner painting war posters for the Government. International Film Service., ca. 1918 - NARA - 533471.tif

File:Brooklyn Museum - Nude - Albert Sterner.jpg

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.{{cite web

| title = Singular Impressions: Albert Sterner

| publisher = Smithsonian Institution

| url = http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/monotypes/sternerbio.html

| access-date = 23 October 2012

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121103162500/http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/monotypes/sternerbio.html

| archive-date = 3 November 2012

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{{cite web

|url=http://www.spanierman.com/Sterner,-Albert/bio/thumbs/biography

|title=Artist Biography: Albert Sterner

|publisher=Spanierman Gallery LLC

|access-date=23 October 2012

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925054058/http://www.spanierman.com/Sterner%2C-Albert/bio/thumbs/biography

|archive-date=25 September 2012

}} 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.{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Sterner, Albert Edward|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14043-sterner-albert-edward|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Frederick T.|last2=Haneman|volume=11|page=553|no-prescript=1}}

In 1918, he returned to America and began teaching at the Art Students League in New York.

{{cite web

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|publisher=Art Students League

|title=Instructors and Lecturers - Past and Present

|access-date=19 May 2013

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030357/http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/About/History/InstructorsandLecturers.aspx

|archive-date=4 March 2016

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{{cite web

|url=http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/Events/OnlineGallery/CelebratingtheLine.aspx

|publisher=Art Students League

|title=Celebrating the Line

|access-date=19 May 2013

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118094906/http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/Events/OnlineGallery/CelebratingtheLine.aspx

|archive-date=18 November 2012

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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."

{{cite news

| date = 17 December 1946

| url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB061EFA345E1B7B93C5A81789D95F428485F9

| title = Albert Sterner, Noted Artist, 83; Portraitist, Lecturer, Teacher of Art Is Dead--Won Many Awards at Exhibitions Contributor to Magazines Wrote on Art Subjects

| work = New York Times}}

Notable students

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Blake{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}}
Jacob Burck
E. Charlton Fulton