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BIOGRAPHY

Nicolas Untersteller was born in Stiring-Wendel, Lorraine, during the first German annexation. After brilliant studies at the School of decorative Arts in Strasbourg from 1921 to 1923, he joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris at the Atelier de Cormon (1854-1924) and Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) and his brother Paul Albert Laurens ( 1870-1934), also professors at the Académie Julian. He received the second first Grand Prix of Rome in 1928. He married in 1929, Hélène Delaroche (1907-1996), also a painter. He went to Villa Medici in Rome from 1929 to 1931. In 1930, he was a professor of painting and drawing at the Academy Yvon and created in 1931 a school of painting in Metz and presented his exhibition "Return of Rome". From 1933 to 1934, he was a boarder at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Spain. In this year 1934 was born his daughter Marguerite-Marie in Metz.

A member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nicolas Untersteller teached the fresco at the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1937. The year 1940 saw the birth of his second child and first son, Louis-Paul, at Sèvres. He was appointed a member of the Board of Fine Arts of Paris in 1940. From 1941 to 1948 he was a professor, head of the painting workshop and among his pupils: Jean-Marie Patel, better known today under his pseudonym Arcabas, painter of sacred art, Henriette Lambert, Antoine Camilleri, Ernest Ramesh, painter of Glass who will also be winner of the Casa de Velãsquez, and Roger Forissier. In 1948 he was appointed Director of the National School of Fine Arts.