Nicolas de Staël
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. Early life Nicolas de Staël was born Nikolai Vladimirovich Stael von Holstein in Saint Petersburg, into the family of a Russian Lieutenant General, Baron Vladimir Stael von Holstein, and his second wife, Lubov Vladimirovna Berednikova . De Staël's family was forced to emigrate to Poland in 1919 because of the Russian Revolution; both his father and stepmother died in Poland and the orphaned Nicolas de Staël was sent with his older sister Marina to Brussels to live with a Russian family .
