Background
Kostellow, Alexander Jusserand was born on December 25, 1897 in Ispahan, Iran. Son of Alexander Jusserand and Beatrice (March-Jacques) Kostellow.
Kostellow, Alexander Jusserand was born on December 25, 1897 in Ispahan, Iran. Son of Alexander Jusserand and Beatrice (March-Jacques) Kostellow.
Student of University of Berlin, 1912-1916. Art Students’ League, New York City, 1918-1920, National Academy, New York City, 1921-1922, Kansas City The Art Institute of Chicago, 1922-1925.
Beatrice. Came to the United States, 1917, naturalized, 1936. Art instructor, Kansas City The Art Institute of Chicago, 1925-1928. Associate professor, head department industrial design, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1929-1938.
Professor of design, chairman of design and structure curriculum, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1940-1947, chairman, department of industrial design since 1945.
Director of product development and engineering, United States Glass Company, Pittsburgh, 1936-1939. Vice president, product development and market research, Columbia Radiator Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1937-1940.
Design consultant, Mine Safety Appliances, Pittsburgh, 1936-1938, Pittsburgh Reflector Company, 1935-1939. Director A. J. Kostellow Associates, New York City, since 1946.
Regular exhibitor, Carnegie International, Whitney Museum, Modern Museum, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Art Gallery, Butler Museum, Nelson Museum (Kansas City), California and Chicago World Fairs.
State Art Commissioner, Pennsylvania, 1937-1940.
Fellow American Designers Institute (national president and chairman educational committee, 1946-1948). Member Artists Equity of America, Brooklyn Society of Artists, Pittsburgh Society of Artists (vice president, 1936-1939).
Married Rowena Reed, September 26, 1921.