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Figurative sculptor in various materials and teacher, born in Vienna, Austria, who moved to Scotland in 1938. From 1946–50 he attended Glasgow School of Art under Douglas Percy Bliss, who thought highly of him; won a post-diploma scholarship; and was later invited to join the teaching staff. Zunterstein was an associate of the RBS and exhibited at the RSA and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, with music, dance and mythology favourite subjects for his often small works. His typical steel-reinforced cement Mother and Child, 1953, adorns the wall of Chirnsyde Primary School, Milton, in Glasgow. Zunterstein lived in the city for many years, then briefly at Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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