Illustrationintheworld

  Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent Dutch architect, and his mother was Belgian. De Feure had two sons, Jean Corneille and Pierre Louis, in the early 1890s with his mistress Pauline Domec and a daughter with his first wife Marguerite Guibert (married 7 July 1897). In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Chéret in his posters for the café concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designe...

  Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Lausanne, 10 November 1859 - Paris, 13 December 1923) was a Swiss painter and engraver, known mainly for his lithographs. His name demonstrates the German origins of his paternal family, even though he was born in French-speaking Switzerland. He was an artist belonging to the Art Nouveau. After high school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the Lausanne Academy, but soon had to go to work with a relative in Mulhausen, in a linen fabric factory and his talent was used for decorative designs of fabrics. In 1881 he went to Paris, at a time when Montmartre was achieving its literary and artistic significance in the world. His first affiche (poster) was Trouville sur Mer from 1885. In 1891 he painted Le reve and discovered lithography. The paintings from 1894, the year in which he had his first exhibition at la Bodinière, show his denunciation of poverty and violence (Le petit sou). In the boulevard Rochechouart the first artistic café was open...

  Leonetto Cappiello (Livorno, April 9, 1875 - Cannes, February 2, 1942) was an Italian naturalized French publicist, illustrator, painter and caricaturist. Together with Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni, Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich, he was one of the fathers of modern Italian advertising billboards Born into a wealthy family, he had an early self-taught artistic training, the first known drawings date back to 1888 (copies of family lithographs that reproduce masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art). The official debut takes place in 1891 with the exhibition of four canvases (disappeared) at the Mostra Promotrice in Florence, an exhibition symbol of "secessionism" operated by the tendencies closest to impressionism as opposed to the current of the Macchiaioli more closely linked to a vernacular dimension. The following year, he exhibited three other canvases in the same venue, including Lady in an Interior (today in the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museu...

  Marcello Dudovich (Trieste, March 21, 1878 - Milan, March 31, 1962) was an Italian advertising artist, painter and illustrator. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Leopoldo Metlicovitz he was one of the fathers of modern Italian advertising billboards. His father Antonio worked as an employee of Assicurazioni Generali and wore the Garibaldian red shirt. His mother from Trieste, Elisabetta Cadorini, was a pianist. He is the third of four siblings: Maria, Itala and Manlio. Marcello's training took place in the "real" schools (corresponding to the technical institutes of the current system) of his city, a professional art institute, a listless and undisciplined boy but very curious and gifted for drawing. Inserted by his cousin, the painter Guido Grimani, in the environment of the "Circolo Artistico Triestino", he frequented the ateliers of the Trieste painters, coming into contact with the great artists of his count...

  Alberto Fabio Lorenzi (Fabius) was born in Florence in 1880. About ten oils remain of his artistic activity in the first decade of the 1900s and as many prints of illustrations. An almost unknown artist in Italy, he was one of the most brilliant illustrators of French publishing products in the first magical decades of the 1900s, managing to integrate perfectly into the artistic community of Paris. He was among the first to reflect himself and follow the new artistic current of those years, the Art N ou veau .