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name: Sternberg
vorname: Harry
wikidata-repräsentation: Q15488004
gnd-repräsentation: 1032382023
biografische angaben: Born in New York City on July 19, 1904, died in Escondido, California on November 27, 2001. Sternberg has had a long career as a painter, printmaker, teacher, and author. Born into a poor immigrant family, he worked his way through the Art Students' League and joined its faculty after graduation, teaching from 1934 until 1966. During the New Deal period the created several murals for the Treasury Section, and he was adviser for the Graphics Division of the Federal Art Project. In 1936 he spent several months on a Guggenheim fellowship documenting the lives of steel and agricultural workers in Pennsylvania mining towns. In the depression years he shared the struggle for survival with fellow artists and friends Will Barnet, George Grosz, Masden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, and others as part of the New York art scene and said it was the most exciting period of his life. He also knew mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, who worked in New York during some of these years. He participated in the first Whitney Museum Invitational Annual in 1937, taught at various schools, and exhibited for many years at the ACA Gallery in New York. Since 1966 he has lived in Escondido, California. He wrote books on etching and silk-screen color printing and woodcuts, including an autobiography.