French, 20th century, male.
Born 1882, in Nantes; died 1932.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, stylist. Figures, portraits, landscapes. Stage costumes and sets.
Art Deco.
On the suggestion of his friends Lesage and Broca, Georges Barbier studied with Jean-Paul Laurens. He was to work mainly for the theatre and the cinema, designing costumes and sets. He was responsible for Rudolph Valentino's costumes in the film ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 15 October 1886, in Paris; died 1972.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Nudes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers.
Art Deco.
Bonfils exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries and especially at the Salon d'Automne until 1938. He is considered to be a typical Art Deco style artist and took part in an exhibition at the Pavillon de Marsan: ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1888, in Meissen; died 1970, in Meissen.
Painter (porcelain). Figures. Designs (medals/medallions).
Jugendstil, Art Deco.
Paul Börner trained at a private porcelain painting studio in Meissen between 1902 and 1905. From 1905 to 1910, he took lessons at the Kunstgewerbeschule, and then at the Kunstakademie in Dresden, where he was a pupil of Richard Müller and Oskar Zwintscher. He travelled to Italy ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1925, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features. Figures, landscapes. Statues.
Art Deco.
François Brochet was the son of the painter and playwright Henri Brochet, and was taught dance, theatre and puppeteering at home. In ...
(b Hamilton, AL, Dec 10, 1941; d Atlanta, GA, Nov 22, 1997).
American painter, printmaker, and collector. Brown was raised in Alabama, where his religious upbringing and interest in folk and material culture, comics aesthetics, and vernacular and Art Deco architecture were formative. He moved to Chicago in 1962 and earned a certificate in commercial design prior to studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where he gravitated to pre-Renaissance Italian art, Surrealism, artists Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and tribal art. Painter Ray Yoshida and art historian Whitney Halstead were seminal influences at SAIC. Both included folk, popular, and self-taught art within the scope of their teaching.
Brown earned his BFA (1968) and his MFA (1970) at SAIC. Works by Brown and fellow students were recognized by curator Don Baum, who organized spirited ‘Chicago School’ exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) from 1966 to 1971; Brown’s work was shown there with the group False Image (...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 14 December 1886, in Saintes; died 1986.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, decorative designer, sculptor, ceramicist. Scenes with figures, nudes, portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, animals. Designs for stained glass.
Japonisme, Art Deco.
School of Bordeaux.
René Buthaud worked first of all in Bordeaux under François Quinsac and then, ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 24 January 1901, in Kharkov, Ukraine; died 18 June 1968, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman, graphic designer, poster artist. Stage sets.
Art Deco.
Cassandre moved to Paris in 1915 and studied at the Académie Julian. He devoted himself to advertising as of 1922 and was responsible for publicity campaigns and poster artwork, including some of the most striking and memorable of the day: ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in the USA from 1940.
Born 4 August 1883, in Bordeaux; died 24 August 1950, in New York.
Decorative artist, architect, designer, draughtsman. Furniture.
Art Deco.
Pierre Chareau worked in France until 1939, then went to live in New York. He regularly participated in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris. In ...
(b Warsaw, 1898; d Mexico, March 18, 1980).
American painter of Polish birth. She lived among the wealthy aristocracy in St Petersburg and fled with her husband from the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1918 she arrived in Paris, where she studied briefly at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, before studying under Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson, and then under André Lhote. Lhote’s theories of composition, his insistence on careful figure studies and the precise application of paint, often using pure colour, provided the groundwork for her own style of freely interpreted Synthetic Cubism. This rapidly became identified with Art Deco and with modernity of style and subject-matter. All her paintings were carefully composed. She made little attempt to create three-dimensional effects, but using hard, angular lines and shapes contrasted against rounded, soft forms, she created a highly stylized view of the world, in particular of the sophisticated society of Paris (e.g. Andromède, 1929...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1876, in Paris; died 1955.
Painter, designer.
Art Deco.
Maurice Dufrêne was essentially an interior designer and, in his day, an important contributor to furniture design. His approach was neat and precise by comparison with the excessive ornamentation of previous periods. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a member from 1909. His work also featured prominently in the decorative arts section of the Salon d'Automne and he played a major role in the organisation of the 1937 Exposition Universelle in Paris....
(Georges)
(b Millemont, Seine-et-Oise, Nov 23, 1876; d La Seyne, Var, Aug 8, 1938).
French painter. He left school at the age of 11 and worked for an industrial engraver, studying drawing at night classes. He later entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under Hubert Ponscarme. There he met Charles Despiau, and, to support himself financially, he worked in the studio of Alexandre Charpentier. He first exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris with a number of works in pastels. The following year he travelled extensively around Italy with the American engraver Herbert Lespinasse (b 1884). In 1910 he won the Prix de l’Afrique Nord with a pastel and therefore spent the years from 1910 to 1912 at the Villa Abd El Tif in Algiers, travelling all over the country and absorbing the local culture. His work up to 1910 had been mainly of Parisian theatres and cafés, executed in pastels or occasionally in tempera on canvas. In Algiers he abandoned pastels and began to work in oils, producing a number of brilliantly coloured works such as ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 23 November 1876, in Millemont (Yvelines); died 8 August 1938, in La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var).
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, engraver. Mythological, allegorical and religious subjects, genre and hunting scenes, nudes, figures, animals, landscapes with figures, still-lifes. Murals, designs for tapestries, stage sets...
[Jules, John]
(b Lancy, May 20, 1877; d Paris, June 7, 1947).
French sculptor, metalworker, painter and designer, of Swiss birth. He trained as a sculptor from 1891 to 1896 at the Ecole des Arts Industriels in Geneva and in 1897 was awarded a scholarship by the city of Geneva that enabled him to continue his studies in Paris, where Jean Dampt, a sculptor from Burgundy, introduced him to the idea of producing designs for interior decoration and furnishing. Dunand worked on the winged horses on the bridge of Alexandre III in Paris (in situ), while simultaneously continuing his research into the use of metal in the decorative arts. His first pieces of dinanderie (decorative brassware) were exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts of 1904 in Paris. In 1906 he gave up sculpture in order to devote his time to making dinanderie and later to lacquering. His first vases (e.g. ‘Wisteria’ vase, gilt brass with cloisonné enamels, ...
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 20 March 1877, in Lancy (Geneva); died 7 June 1942.
Painter (lacquer), decorative designer, coppersmith, sculptor.
Art Deco.
Jules John Dunand trained at the École des Arts Industriels in Geneva, along with the wood engraver François Louis Schmied, who would be his friend and collaborator for the rest of his life. Together, they went to work in Paris in 1897. Dunand was one of the artists employed to make groups of winged horses for the Pont Alexandre III, in readiness for the opening of the Exposition Universelle of 1900. He also managed to find time for his own work, and began exhibiting some quite conventional sculptures at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 21 February 1882, in Bordeaux; died 1964.
Painter (gouache), engraver, lithographer, draughtsman. Scenes with figures, religious subjects, allegorical subjects, mythological subjects, figures, nudes, animals. Murals.
Art Deco.
Jean Théodore Dupas was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and of Albert Besnard. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, receiving a commendation in ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active from 1910 in France.
Born 1892, in St Petersburg; died 21 April 1990, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache), sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, stylist, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets, designs for jewellery, furniture.
Art Deco.
The son of an admiral in the Imperial navy, Erté was a pupil of Ilya Repin in St Petersburg. He went to Paris at the age of eighteen, apparently attended the Académie Julian and was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Jean-Paul Laurens' workshop. He began his career in 1913 with the couturier Paul Poiret. From that year onwards, he designed stage costumes for Mata-Hari, Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys and in 1914 he worked for the journals ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 16 June 1898, in Lyons; died 8 April 1966, in Quimper.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, designer, photographer, ceramicist. Scenes with figures, landscapes.
Art Deco.
Georges Géo-Fourrier attended the Alfred Keller studio in Paris, then studied wood engraving with Alphonse Isaac, and in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1878, in Charpentry (Meuse); died 1946, in Rheims.
Painter, designer, enameller.
Art Deco.
Jean Goulden initially studied medicine and in 1906 successfully defended his thesis on the physiology of the isolated heart. In 1914 he was mobilised as a doctor's assistant and travelled a great deal. He returned to France with some paintings on wood and some drawings. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 8 June 1883, in Angoulême; died 21 September 1935, in Menton.
Draughtsman, caricaturist, illustrator, designer. Designs (wallpapers/fabrics/jewels), stage costumes and sets.
Art Deco.
During World War I, Paul Iribe published a periodical entitled The Word ( Le Mot), along with Dufy, Sem, Cocteau, Lhote and others. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 14 April 1873, in Lausanne, Switzerland; died 1959.
Painter, designer. Allegorical subjects, figures, portraits, interiors with figures, still-lifes, landscapes. Murals, designs for tapestries.
Art Deco.
Gustave Louis Jaulmes was a son of a French pastor who ministered in Lausanne. When he came of age, the young man chose France, and did his military service in Nîmes. He studied in Paris in the Jean-Paul Laurens studio and at the Académie Julian. In ...
