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Stahly, François
(b Konstanz, 18 March 1911). French sculptor of German birth. Born of an Italian father and a German mother, he spent his youth in Switzerland, studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1931, encouraged by Walter Klinger, he moved to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Ranson. There he studied under Charles Malfray and formed lasting friendships with many of the painting and sculpture students, such as Etienne-Martin and the French painter Jean Le Moal (b 1909). Many of those who had studied under Malfray joined the Témoignage group founded by the poet and art dealer Marcel Michaud (1898–1958) in 1936. As a member of this group Stahly exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Lyon in 1936. Also in 1936 he received his first commission, for bas-reliefs and sculptures for the Pavillon de la Femme at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) in Paris. His early sculptures, all in wood, are in natural, curving forms, for example Finger (1938–42; Paris, H.-P. Roché priv. col., see 1966 exh. cat.).
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