French, 18th century, male.
Born 1728, in Lautrec (Tarn); died probably, in Lautrec (Tarn).
Painter, decorative artist, tapestry maker.
Alaux's father was Pierre Alaux, a master tapestry maker, and his grandfather was Gilles Alaux, a master sculptor.
maiden name: Fleischmann
German, 20th century, female.
Active in the USA.
Born 12 June 1899, in Berlin; died 10 May 1994, in Orange (Connecticut), USA.
Draughtswoman, textile designer, printmaker.
Having studied in Berlin and Hamburg, Anni Albers went on to study at the Bauhaus from 1922 to 1930. She married Josef Albers and became an assistant teacher at a weaving workshop. In 1933, the two emigrated to the USA, founding the art department at Black Mountain College, a newly established liberal arts school in North Carolina. In 1949, Anni and Josef moved to New Haven (Connecticut) where he served as chair for the design department at Yale University.
As early on as her first teaching post at the Bauhaus, where she ran technical classes, she taught students to combine natural and synthetic materials in weaving, saying: ‘The material determines its own limits in the face of the tasks imposed by the imagination.’ After emigrating to the USA, she continued to teach this philosophy at Black Mountain College and was thus part of the considerable influence exerted by the college on the artistic movement that would go on to become the American School of the 1940s. Challenging historical distinctions between high and low art forms, she carved out space for fibre arts within the discourse of fine art. Her pedagogical approach not only integrated art, craft, and industry, but also emphasised the cultivation of moral character, self-sufficiency, and independence from machinery....
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active also active in Italy.
Born 31 October 1957, in Bordeaux.
Architect, designer, draughtswoman. Furniture, rug design.
Martine Bedin was awarded a bursary to study architecture in Florence in 1978, and then graduated from the École d'Architecture in Paris. She began her formal research in ...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1873, in Munich; died 1933, in Bad Nauheim.
Tapestry maker, glassmaker, interior designer. Designs (furniture).
Jugendstil.
Karl Bertsch was a self-taught tapestry maker. In 1902, with Adelbert Niemeyer, he created a workshop making furniture and interior decoration items, which they called the Müncher Werkstätten für Wohnungseinrichtung. In ...
British, 20th century, male.
Active in Crays Pond, near Reading.
Born 1909, in Essex; died November 1996, in London.
Painter, printmaker, sculptor, ceramicist, textile designer. Portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes.
London Group.
André Bicât was a self-taught artist. Born to French and Anglo-Irish parents, he worked as a theatre designer and scene painter in the 1930s. His theatre work included work for Mercury Theatre Productions in ...
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Born in Lausanne.
Decorative designer. Designs for carpets.
Ernest Boiceau exhibited carpets and a complete interior in the decorative arts section of the Salon d'Automne in 1928 and 1929.
French, 20th century, female.
Born in St-Omer.
Painter, decorative artist. Designs for carpets.
Boileau exhibited landscapes, carpets and cushions at the Salon d'Automne from 1920 to 1923.
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 ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 4 January 1887, in London; died 1941.
Painter, illustrator, metal worker, textile designer. Landscapes.
Gregory Brown designed posters for railway companies, the Empire Marketing Board and for the Underground Group from 1914 to 1940. He won a gold medal for textile design at the ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1889, in Krefeld; died 1957, in Amsterdam.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, engraver (wood), decorative designer. Figure compositions, figures, nudes, rustic scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, architectural views, still-lifes, animals. Stage sets, designs for stained glass, glass painting, designs for fabrics...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 15 October 1893, in Angers.
Engraver, illustrator, painter, decorative designer. Designs for carpets, designs (wallpapers/fabrics).
Maurice Camus studied with Claudio Castellucho at the latter's Académie de Montparnasse and also under Lucien Simon. During a visit to Palermo in 1919, he painted decorative compositions for the Casa Florio. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and was made a member in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 12 January 1874, in Montpellier; died 1933, in Algiers.
Painter (including gouache), engraver, decorative artist. Genre scenes, figures, landscapes, landscapes with figures. Designs for carpets, designs (furniture).
Orientalism.
School of Algiers.
Léon Cauvy studied under Albert Maignan and exhibited at the Paris Salon as of 1901. He served as principal of the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers from 1909 to 1933. Cauvy was a member of the Société du Salon des Artistes Français from 1906 onwards. He was awarded a silver medal in 1911, following which he exhibited out of competition. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1926....
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)...
Swiss, 20th century, female.
Born in Paris.
Decorative designer. Designs for carpets.
Cless exhibited carpets at the 1922 Salon des Artistes Français and at the Salon des Indépendants in 1928. Her work also featured at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
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 ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 21 February 1871, in Görlitz; died 1948, at the Lünen monastery.
Painter, decorative designer. Wall decorations, designs for tapestries, designs (fabrics).
Jugendstil.
Wilhelm von Debschitz travelled to the Tyrol and in Italy, before settling in Munich. He is best remembered for co-founding, with Hermann Obrist, the famous Lehr und Versuch-Ateliers für Angewandte und Freie Kunst school for applied arts in Munich in ...
