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  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...

  Painter, illustrator and writer (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Linked to art nouveau, he renewed illustration and children's literature in Italy, introducing a charge of irreverent fantasy and capturing in the world of children the taste for the negation of roles and the availability for the unexpected. He was one of the founders (1908) of Corriere dei piccoli, for which he designed the masthead and many bizarre characters (Quadratino, Kikì parrot of Kili, Pierino and the puppet, Lillo and Lalla, etc.). He wrote and illustrated numerous volumes, including: Verses and drawings (1911); Viperetta (1919); Tic and tac (1919), The frottolie (1929); Almost True Fairy Tales (1936).