Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 6 March 1847, in Florence; died 1930.
Painter, watercolourist, fresco artist. Allegorical subjects, genre scenes, portraits, costume studies. Wall decorations.
Federigo Andreotti studied at the fine art academy in Florence under Pollastrini and Tricca. He was made a professor there and was awarded a scholarship. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London ...
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 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....
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 April 1868, in Hamburg; died 27 February 1940, in Berlin.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, architect, designer, decorative artist, graphic designer. Posters, furniture, wallpaper, carpets, glassware, ceramics, table services, jewellery, silverwork, objets d'art, typefaces.
Jugendstil, functional school.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven), Deutscher Werkbund...
French, 20th century, female.
Born 23 April 1940, in Hyères.
Painter, decorative designer. Designs for carpets, designs for jewellery.
Andrée Bellaguet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where she won the first prize for painting.
She has created decorative works, particularly in 1972 for Claude Parent's architecture of inclined plains. Her murals, paintings and reliefs can be found on various public buildings in Paris, Épernay, Créteil and Giens. She has also designed carpets and baroque-style jewellery....
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....
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...
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....
French, 20th century, female.
Born 19 November 1889, in Verdun; died 25 June 1972.
Painter, draughtswoman, humorist artist, watercolourist, illustrator, designer. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes. Church decoration, furniture, frescoes, designs for tapestry, posters, costumes.
The third child of Edouard Branly, a doctor, Elisabeth Branly trained with Claire Chevalet, as well as with Jacques Cancaret at the Académie Julian until ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 6 March 1866, in Flensburg; died 5 January 1945, in Wiesbaden.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorative designer, graphic designer. Portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes, still-lifes, flowers, decorative motifs. Designs for carpets, designs (furniture/posters/jewellery/book-binding).
Jugendstil.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven)...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1898, in St-Nazaire; died 1964, in Étables-sur-Mer.
Painter, engraver (wood), illustrator, ethnologist. Genre scenes, local scenes, seascapes. Designs for jewellery, furniture.
Ar Seiz Breur.
René Yves Creston trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 1919, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 2 January 1854, in Venarcy; died 26 September 1945, in Dijon.
Sculptor, furniture designer, jeweller. Busts, statues, groups.
Jean Auguste Dampt studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and then under Jouffroy and Dubois at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1932, in Ukkel.
Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, decorative designer, jeweller.
Demassieux's figurative sculptures in bronze, terracotta, polyester and silver have a stripped aspect in their manner of representing human movement through space.
French, 18th century, male.
Born May 1743, in Auxerre; died 17 March 1804, in Stockholm.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink/wash), engraver (etching), caricaturist, decorative artist, architect. Religious subjects, historical subjects, military subjects, church interiors, architectural interiors, landscapes with figures, landscapes, urban views, harbour scenes, architectural views, costume studies...
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 (...
German, 19th century, male.
Born 19 November 1865, in Hamburg; died 11 June 1902, in Badenweiler.
Painter, decorative artist, illustrator, engraver, designer, ceramicist, textile designer. Portraits, landscapes, flowers. Designs for stained glass, designs for tapestries, ex-libris plates, advertising posters, fabrics, ceramics, metal objects, ironware, lamps, furniture, typefaces, jewellery, wallpaper...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 12 April 1871, in Berlin; died 15 April 1925, in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland).
Draughtsman, architect, decorative artist, designer, illustrator, author. Furniture, jewellery, lamps, art objects.
Jugendstil.
Deutscher Werkbund.
In Munich, August Endell studied philosophy, art history, aesthetics and psychology, notably a course run by Theodor Lipp on the psychological effect of the perception of lines and forms. There, in ...
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 ...
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....
