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...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Marciana Marina (Livorno); died 1971, in Milan.
Painter, ceramicist, illustrator, scenographer, writer. Stage costumes.
Futurism.
Giovanni Acquaviva studied philosophy and law at the University of Pisa, while devoting himself to illustration at the same time. He founded the Futurist group ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1928, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg); died 1988.
Painter. Portraits, figures, urban landscapes, landscapes with figures. Stage sets.
Dimitri Afanasev studied at the academy of fine art in Leningrad (Repin Institute) under N. Akimov until 1956. He worked as a set designer particularly in Leningrad and taught at N. Cherkasov Institute, the institute of theatre in Leningrad ...
French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 22 June 1952, in Bordeaux.
Painter (including mixed media), sculptor, potter. Stage sets.
At the age of 24, Philippe Aïni gave up his job as a pastry cook to become an artist, although he lacked any training. At first, he was supported and encouraged to exhibit by Jean-Pierre Roche of the Galerie Émergences in Bordeaux (...
Belgian, 20th century, female.
Born 1903.
Painter. Stage costumes.
Primarily a dancer, Akarova was married to the painter Marcel Louis Baugniet, and it was probably under his influence as an artist of the Avant-Garde that she too emerged as a painter. Some exhibitions held in Belgium in the 1990s acknowledged her contribution to the art of the early 20th century....
Ukranian, 20th century, male.
Born 16 April 1901, in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv); died 16 September 1968, in Moscow.
Painter, stage designer, graphic artist, theatre director.
Nikolay Pavolovich Akimov studied under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev in St Petersburg from 1915 to 1919. He worked as a stage designer in Kharkiv ...
Romanian, 20th century, male.
Born in Bucharest.
Painter. Stage costumes.
Alkar Alexandresco was important as a theatrical costume designer and exhibited as such in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants in 1927. Assyrian Idol is quoted in a private collection.
French, 20th century, male.
Born 19 August 1890, in Fontainebleau; died 22 April 1969, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figure compositions, figures, landscapes. Designs for tapestries, wall decorations, stage sets.
Yves Alix studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, and won a place at the École des Beaux-Arts, but instead chose to enter the Académie Ranson, where Bonnard, Vuillard, K.-X. Roussel, Maurice Denis and Sérusier worked as teachers. He began exhibiting his work in 1912 at the Salon des Indépendants, of which he became a committee member, as well as at the Salon d'Automne. He also exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon Comparaisons. Alix's work featured in a large number of solo exhibitions, mostly in art galleries in Paris, but also in Strasbourg, and at a retrospective exhibition in 1990 to mark the centenary of his birth, held at the Donadeï de Campredon hotel of the Isle-sur-la-Sorgue....
French, 20th century, female.
Painter, illustrator. Figures, fruit. Stage costumes and sets.
A graduate of the École des Arts appliqués, Géraldine Allier started out as a graphic illustrator in the advertising and publishing industries. With the help of Louis Bercut, with whom she worked for several years, she then started making her own sets and costumes: ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Also active in France from 1910.
Born 1889, in Vinnitsa; died 1970, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator. Stage sets.
Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds) group.
A student at the school of fine art in Odessa between 1903...
Syrian, 20th century, male.
Born 1934, in Hama.
Painter. Figures, scenes with figures. Stage sets.
Symbolism.
Group of Ten.
Khouzayma Alwani trained at the academy of fine art in Rome in 1957 and received his diploma as a theatre artist in 1964. In 1973, he was awarded another diploma, this time from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has been Professor at the school of fine arts in Damascus since ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 27 February 1846, in Rouen; died 1917.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative artist. Stage sets.
The son of an actor, Amable had his stage debut in a pantomime at the Funambules Theatre on Boulevard du Temple in 1852, which casts doubt on his accepted date of birth, and then played at the Comte Theatre in ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1960.
Born 1934, in Bad Bellingen.
Painter (including gouache), performance artist, watercolourist, engraver (etching), monotype artist, draughtsman. Stage sets, artists' books, posters.
Hermann Amann is very active. He has published written works and given numerous lectures on painting. As a painter, he produces very colourful, very musical works, with a dynamic rhythm, made up of geometric figures in thick lines or black rings, biomorphic forms and graphic signs. He also produces engravings (etchings and monotypes), artists' books ( ...
Spanish, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active since 1979, also active in the USA.
Born 1952, in Barcelona.
Painter (mixed media), draughtsman.
Frederic Amat studied scenography and architecture from 1969 to 1973, and he also began to paint. His first solo exhibitions took place in Barcelona in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1943, in Aubusson (Creuse).
Painter, decorative designer. Stage sets.
Dominique André is the son of Maurice André. At the age of 15 in Paris, he prepared for admission to the École des Arts Décoratifs and at the Académie Charpentier. He was admitted the following year, and studied with Félix Labisse, Marcel Gromaire, Picart-Le-Doux. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 24 September 1914; died January 1985, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, ceramicist. Designs for tapestries and stained-glass windows.
Maurice André participated in several of the annual Paris Salons, and staged an exhibition of his watercolours in 1952. He won the Grand Prix International de Création at the Brussels exhibition of ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active also active throughout Europe.
Born 1894 or 1895, in Kherson; died 12 November 1982, in Paris.
Painter. Stage sets.
Constructivism.
Mikhail Andreenko studied at the Imperial School of Fine Art in St Petersburg. He devoted himself very early on to stage sets, first in Russia and then in various other European countries. He also painted abstract geometrical paintings from a very general design, with emphatically determined plans and signs. In 1915, at the age of 15 or 16, he participated at the exhibition ...
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 10 April 1888, in Barcelona; died 1977.
Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, scenes with figures, still-lifes. Stage sets.
Mariano Andreu settled in France on a long-term basis and exhibited at the annual Paris exhibitions, at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1914, at the Salon d'Automne (of which he was a member) and at the Tuileries (after 1924). His first exhibition was in Barcelona, and he later also exhibited in London, Munich, New York and other cities. In 1936, he exhibited at the exhibition of ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1879, in Beltsy; died 1973, in Stonington (Connecticut).
Painter (gouache), draughtsman. Scenes with figures. Stage costumes and sets.
Symbolism.
Boris Anisfeld studied at the academy of fine art in St Petersburg. He spent some time in the south of France working on the Spanish border around 1913 and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, of which he became a member. He then returned to work in Petrograd, only to leave again in 1917. From 1918 to 1920, he took part in a touring exhibition in the United States: Brooklyn Museum in New York, Allbright Knox Museum in Buffalo, Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Art in St Louis and in San Francisco....
Russian, 20th century, male.
Also active in France.
Born 11 July 1889, in Petropavlosk (Kamchatka); died 1974, in Paris.
Painter, collage artist, sculptor, illustrator, draughtsman. Stage costumes and sets, film sets.
The son of a political exile in Kamchatka, Yuri Annenkov was able to go to St Petersburg in 1898 and study at the school of fine art and at several artists’ workshops between 1908 and 1911, developing a passion for the theatre and theatrical production. He went to Paris in 1911 and studied with Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton and then went to Switzerland in 1913. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1912 and 1913 and then returned to Russia where he joined the...
