French, 20th century, male.
Born 10 February 1944, in Rocroi (Ardennes).
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets.
Aballain graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1965.
He designed the stage sets and costumes for A Season in Hell...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1926, in Frémery (Moselle).
Painter, sculptor, decorative designer. Figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, designs for mosaics and stained-glass windows, stage sets, stage costumes.
Arcabas studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also had a degree. He was a friend of the painter Dimitri Varbanesco. He exhibited in numerous towns in France and abroad. From ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born February 1903, in Tunis; died 24 January 1978, in Aix-en-Provence.
Painter, architect, decorative designer, designer, poster artist. Wall decorations, stage costumes and sets, furniture, advertising art.
Art et Lumière.
Félix Tahar Marie Aublet was the son of the Orientalist painter Albert Aublet. He was brought up both in Neuilly, France, and in a Moorish palace in Tunis, where the family spent six months of the year. His second forename, Tahar, means 'blessed one' in Arabic. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born c. 1880, in Paris.
Painter. Landscapes, urban views. Murals, decorative panels, stage costumes, posters.
Maurice Barbey worked in several different techniques including large decorative panels for a hotel in St-Cast, posters and theatrical costumes as well as paintings. His landscapes are sometimes warm in colour, with large splashes of pure colour, or practically monochromatic as in his views of small German towns in the snow....
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in Italy.
Born 1901, in St Petersburg.
Painter, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets.
The son of Alexander Benois, Nikolai Benois settled in Italy from 1925 where he worked for the main theatres including the Opera in Rome and La Scala in Milan. His imagery is rather traditional but he mastered the resources of modern set design....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 26 June 1909, in Dijon; died 6 December 1996, in Paris.
Painter, collage artist, engraver, draughtsman. Wall decorations, designs for mosaics, stained glass windows, tapestries, stage costumes and sets.
A pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons in 1930, Bertholle studied in Paris from 1932-1934, and subsequently attended classes run by the painter Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson, where he met his friends and associates Manessier, Etienne-Martin, Le Moal and Véra Pagava. He was artistic director of the Gien porcelain factory from 1943-1957, and taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1965-1980. He was a member of the Institut de France, a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Initially an admirer of Puvis de Chavannes, whose work he had encountered at the city museum in Lyons, Bertholle later discovered Manet (at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1932), and through the latter, Van Gogh and Renoir. Following his early, highly-coloured Expressionist period, Bertholle was greatly influenced by the Flemish fantasies of Breughel and Heironymus Bosch, and ultimately by the Surrealists - as may be seen in his painting of the ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1860, in Lyons; died 3 March 1905, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative artist. Figures. Stage costumes.
Charles Bianchini began as a designer of costumes for revues and in 1893 was appointed artist to the Paris Opéra. He also produced costume designs for the Opéra-Comique and other companies, designs which were always right for the roles and for the physique of the actors involved....
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1922.
Born 21 September 1900, in Bendery (Odessa); died 3 February 1948, in Catania, Italy.
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, decorative artist. Stage costumes and sets, posters.
Boris Konstantinovich Bilinsky studied theatre production in Berlin with Max Reinhardt between 1920 and 1922 and painting with Leon Bakst. He settled in France in 1922, then in Rome in 1939....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 25 April 1896, in Paris; died 1983.
Painter, decorative artist. Stage costumes and sets.
Boll designed numerous sets for operas, ballets and plays, including Ariane and Bluebeard by Paul Dukas; Tristan and Isolde, Meistersingers, by Richard Wagner; Pelleas and Melisande...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1920.
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets, postage stamps.
Oscar Bonnevalle studied at the Ghent academy and went on to produce postage stamp designs which demonstrate a genuine feeling for realism and traditional folklore....
French, 18th century, male.
Born 1717; died 1814.
Decorative designer, draughtsman. Stage costumes.
He started working for the Paris Opéra in 1748 and became the official costume designer for court festivals, entertainments and ceremonies in 1764.
Paris, 10 Nov 1988: Shepherdess Costume for an Opera...
Romanian, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Radu born 16 January 1944 in Roman, Miruna born 14 July 1945 in Craiova.
Painters, decorative designers, stage set designers. Stage costumes and sets.
Both Radu and Miruna Boruzescu graduated from the institute of fine arts in Bucharest in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1933.
Painter (including gouache), decorative designer. Figures, architectural views, flowers. Stage sets, stage costumes.
Dimitri Bouchêne was among the theatrical designers who followed on from Christian Bérard. His free, light line deliberately recalls classical architecture, though this is more suggested than actually represented and uses harmonious pale tones....
Egyptian, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Cairo.
Painter, watercolourist, illustrator, decorative artist. Decorative motifs. Stage costumes and sets, designs for jewellery.
A pupil at the Académie Julian, the École des Arts Decoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Georges Doche went on to show his work in several public exhibitions and, in particular, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris, as well as at several private galleries in Geneva, Tokyo and London. He had a number of solo exhibitions, including in Paris (...
Greek, 20th century, male.
Born 1910, in Athens; died 1985.
Painter, illustrator, decorative designer, poet. Mythological subjects, genre scenes, urban landscapes. Stage sets, stage costumes, icons.
Nico Engonopoulos spent his childhood in Istanbul, then known as Constantinople. After an aimless stay in Paris, he studied at the school of fine art in Athens ...
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 ...
Russian, 18th century, male.
Painter, decorative artist. Stage sets (?).
Nikifor Ezhevsky is known for works in the apartments of Empress Catherine the Great in the Winter Palace, in the Moscow Court Theatre and in Grand Palace at Pavlovsk.
Hungarian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1877, in Budapest; died 1928.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative designer. Patterns (fabrics), stage costumes, posters.
Geza Farago was initially a fabric designer in a cotton fabric factory, then went to Paris where he was apprenticed as a painter, draughtsman and decorator in several workshops, notably at the Académie Colarossi....
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1909, in London; died 1978, in London.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Landscapes, portraits, decorative schemes. Stage costumes and sets.
Leslie Hurry trained at St John's Wood Art School in 1925, and was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy Schools for two years. In the 1930s he travelled around Britain and Ireland, living on commissions from owners of large estates. He then travelled to France, where he wrote two books on automatic drawing ( ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 28 June 1885, in Munich; died 1967.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist, decorative designer, lithographer. Stage costumes and sets.
Ludwig Kainer started out as a doctor and only later became an artist. From 1904 to 1914, he lived in Paris. In ...
