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Aublet, Félix Tahar Marie  

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 ...

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Bawden, Edward  

British, 20th century, male.

Active in London.

Born 10 March 1903, in Braintree (Essex); died 21 November 1989, in Saffron Walden (Essex).

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, illustrator, printmaker, graphic designer. Military subjects, rustic scenes, landscapes, seascapes, harbour scenes, architectural views, church interiors. Decorative panels.

Edward Bawden studied at Cambridge School of Art ...

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Behrens, Peter  

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...

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Belair, Pierre de  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 29 October 1892, in Lyons; died 1956.

Painter, decorative designer, poster artist. Figure compositions.

Pierre de Belair studied with Adolphe Déchenaud, François Flameng and Jean Paul Laurens. He was a member of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he exhibited between ...

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Bell, Vanessa  

British, 20th century, female.

Born 13 May 1879, near London; died 7 April 1961, in Sussex.

Painter, engraver, illustrator, designer, graphic designer. Still-lifes, landscapes, portraits. Designs for wallpapers and fabrics, furniture, stage sets.

Bloomsbury Group, Omega Workshops, London Group, Euston Road School.

Vanessa Bell was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, the sister of Virginia Woolf and the wife of the art historian Clive Bell. She started her training with the Royal Academician Sir Arthur Cope, and continued it at the Royal Academy of Art under the direction of the American portrait painter John Singer Sargent between 1900 and 1904....

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Bernhard, Lucian  

German, 20th century, male.

Active in the USA.

Born 15 March 1883, in Stuttgart; died 29 May 1972, in New York.

Painter, sculptor, graphic designer, poster artist, illustrator, architect, designer, decorative artist. Designs for carpets, advertising art, furniture, lamps, wallpaper.

Jugendstil.

Deutscher Werkbund.

Lucian Bernhard studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Munich, but taught himself design. He was active in Berlin. In ...

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Bürck, Paul  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 3 September 1878, in Strasbourg; died 18 April 1947, in Munich.

Painter, graphic designer, draughtsman, interior designer, illustrator, engraver (wood). Designs for tapestries, ex-libris plates, posters, designs (wallpaper/jewellery).

Jugendstil.

Die Sieben (Group of Seven). Darmstadt Artists' Colony.

Paul Bürck was apprenticed to a decorative painter in Munich, and was also able to attend the Kunstgewerbeschule (school of industrial art and design). He was one of the first artists to be invited to the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt between ...

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Céelle  

French, 20th century, female.

Born 25 August 1929, in Paris.

Painter, engraver, draughtswoman (including ink), watercolourist, graphic designer. Scenes with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views, seascapes, boats, still-lifes, cats, flowers. Wall decorations, designs for tapestries.

Céelle studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs and the École Estienne in Paris. She worked in advertising as a graphic artist. Her work as a graphic artist is evident in her acuity of line, and the rigour of her composition. She generally paints in greys and browns, although she has occasionally surprised with her subtle colours, especially in the years ...

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Christiansen, Hans  

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)...

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Cissarz, Johann Vincenz  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 22 January 1873, in Danzig (now Gdansk); died 23 December 1942, in Frankfurt am Main.

Painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, graphic designer, interior designer. History painting, portraits, landscapes. Posters, designs (furniture/jewellery).

Jugendstil.

Darmstadt Artists' Colony.

Johann Vincenz Cissarz trained at the Dresden academy between ...

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Cortot, Jean  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 14 February 1925, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Painter, engraver, illustrator, graphic designer. Posters, wall decorations, designs for tapestries, designs for carpets.

From 1942, Jean Cortot studied under Othon Friesz at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and together with Busse, Calmettes, Patrix and others, was a co-founder of the ...

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David, Jean  

Israeli, 20th century, male.

Active from 1948 active in Israel.

Born 16 December 1908, in Bucharest.

Painter, engraver, poster artist, graphic designer, decorative designer. Designs for tapestries, and stained glass windows.

He was an architecture student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he later studied painting at the Scandinavian Academy and at the Académie Julian ...

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Delaunay-Terk, Sonia  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Active in France from 1905.

Born 14 November 1885, in Gradiesk; died 5 December 1979, in Paris.

Painter, decorative artist, poster artist.

Orphism.

Groupe des Réalités Nouvelles, Espace.

Born into a poor Jewish family in Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay was orphaned at the age of five and raised, though not adopted, by her maternal uncle, the affluent Henri Terk, in St Petersburg. She was interested in ethnology, mathematics and painting and visited Finland, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. Between 1903 and 1905, she studied drawing in Karlsruhe in the studio of Schmidt-Reutter, and she thus discovered German Expressionism. She went to Paris in 1905 and settled there definitively. She attended the Académie de la Palette, meeting Ozenfant, Segonzac and Boussingault and was introduced to engraving. She was greatly impressed by Van Gogh and Gauguin and the Fauve canvases exhibited at Wilhelm Uhde’s gallery, the collector and art dealer whom she married in 1908. Two years later, having met Robert Delaunay, she divorced Uhde and married Delaunay. Together with her husband, she began to devote herself to painting. ‘The passion of painting is our principle link’, she wrote....

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Erler, Fritz  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 15 December 1868, in Frankenstein, Silesia, near Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland); died 11 July 1940, in Munich.

Painter, graphic designer, draughtsman, illustrator, decorative designer. Posters, theatre sets, designs (art objects/jewellery/glassware/fabrics).

Die Scholle group. Utting-Holzhausen artists' colony.

Fritz Erler was educated at the Strehlen School, then began his artistic studies in Albrecht Bräuer's studio at the Kunstschule in Breslau. There he applied himself to life drawing. He completed his artistic education by travelling through France, Italy and northern Germany. In 1892, Erler went to Paris and entered the Académie Julian. He remained there until 1894, receiving guidance from Adolphe Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier. After a brief trip to Berlin, he returned to Breslau in 1894, and devoted his time to studying anatomy, perspective and ...

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Falcucci, Robert  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 10 April 1900, in Châteauroux; died 13 May 1989, in St-Aubin-Châteauneuf.

Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, designer, poster artist, sculptor. Religious subjects, military subjects, battles, figures, nudes, figure compositions. Wall decorations.

Robert Falcucci trained in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École des Arts Décoratifs, and he was also taught by Cécile and Émmanuel Cavaille-Coll. In ...

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Fumeron, René  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1921, in Peyroux.

Painter, poster artist, designer. Wall decorations, designs for tapestries, designs (wallpapers/fabrics).

René Fumeron studied at the École des Arts Appliqués and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He originally produced mural decorations and designs for wallpaper, fabrics and posters and from ...

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Haustein, Paul  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 17 May 1880, in Chemnitz; died 6 September 1944, in Stuttgart.

Painter, decorative designer, graphic designer. Objets d'art, ceramics, decorative arts, silverware, jewels.

Darmstadt Artists' Colony.

Paul Haustein studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden in 1896, and then in 1897...

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Hjortzberg, Gustav Olof  

Swedish, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 14 November 1872, in Stockholm; died 1959.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist. Figures, portraits, landscapes with figures, still-lifes (including flowers/fruit). Wall decorations, designs for stained glass.

Gustav Olof Hjortzberg studied at the Stockholm academy from 1892 to 1896. He spent seven years travelling in France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Asia. After returning to Stockholm, he was professor of drawing at the academy from 1911 to 1917, and later its director from 1920 to 1941. Between 1921 and 1938, he instituted a school of decorative arts at the academy. He took part in group exhibitions, including the ...

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Hohlwein, Ludwig  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 27 July 1874, in Wiesbaden; died 15 September 1949, in Berchtesgaden.

Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, poster artist, interior designer. Figures, landscapes, animals. Designs (ceramics).

Jugendstil.

Ludwig Hohlwein began drawing illustrations and making models of jewellery and bookbindings, parallel to his architectural studies, which he began in ...

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Kainer, Ludwig  

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 ...