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Barbier, Georges  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1882, in Nantes; died 1932.

Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, stylist. Figures, portraits, landscapes. Stage costumes and sets.

Art Deco.

On the suggestion of his friends Lesage and Broca, Georges Barbier studied with Jean-Paul Laurens. He was to work mainly for the theatre and the cinema, designing costumes and sets. He was responsible for Rudolph Valentino's costumes in the film ...

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Bonfils, Robert  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 15 October 1886, in Paris; died 1972.

Painter, engraver, illustrator. Nudes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers.

Art Deco.

Bonfils exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries and especially at the Salon d'Automne until 1938. He is considered to be a typical Art Deco style artist and took part in an exhibition at the Pavillon de Marsan: ...

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Erté  

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 ...

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Géo-Fourrier, Georges  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 16 June 1898, in Lyons; died 8 April 1966, in Quimper.

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, designer, photographer, ceramicist. Scenes with figures, landscapes.

Art Deco.

Georges Géo-Fourrier attended the Alfred Keller studio in Paris, then studied wood engraving with Alphonse Isaac, and in ...

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Iribe, Paul  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 8 June 1883, in Angoulême; died 21 September 1935, in Menton.

Draughtsman, caricaturist, illustrator, designer. Designs (wallpapers/fabrics/jewels), stage costumes and sets.

Art Deco.

During World War I, Paul Iribe published a periodical entitled The Word ( Le Mot), along with Dufy, Sem, Cocteau, Lhote and others. In ...

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Lebeau, (Joris Johannes) Chris  

Jan Jaap Heij

[Christiaan]

(b Amsterdam, May 26, 1878; d Dachau, April 2, 1945).

Dutch painter, designer and applied artist. He trained in design and decorative painting at the Quellinus school and the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid (National School of the Applied Arts) in Amsterdam from 1892 to 1899. He was assigned to assist with the decoration of the Dutch pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. A number of his designs for the pavilion were executed in batik, a Javanese technique that had been recently introduced in the Netherlands. In subsequent years Lebeau developed a very personal approach to batiking and within a short time became the leading Dutch artist in this field. His batiked screens in particular were widely acclaimed (examples in Assen, Prov. Mus. Drenthe) and are considered masterpieces of Dutch Jugendstil.

Lebeau is one of the most important representatives of the severe, geometrical trend in Dutch applied arts of the early 20th century. From 1903 he designed damask tablecloths and household linen for the ...

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Moreau, Luc Albert  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 9 December 1882, in Paris; died in the spring of 1948, in Paris.

Painter, engraver, illustrator, lithographer.

Art Deco.

Luc Albert Moreau came from a middle-class family who intended him to go into law. However he soon abandoned his legal studies, which did not interest him, and entered the Académie de la Palette, where he received lessons from Charles Guérin, Desvallières and Laprade. This was a period of numerous artistic, literary and sporting gatherings at the home of the designer and great Art Nouveau patron Poiret. It may perhaps have been in order to convince his family to take him seriously that he also followed courses at the School of Oriental Languages, which he did with sufficient enthusiasm to be able to translate La Fontaine's ...

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Pankok, Bernhard  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 16 May 1872, in Münster; died 5 April 1943, in Baierbrunn (Upper Bavaria), in Munich according to other sources.

Architect, painter, draughtsman, illustrator, engraver, sculptor, interior designer, graphic designer. Portraits, landscapes with figures, landscapes, portraits. Stage sets, designs (furniture).

Jugendstil, Art Deco...

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Urban, Joseph  

Paul Louis Bentel

(b Vienna, 1872; d New York, July 10, 1933).

American architect, stage designer, interior designer and illustrator of Austrian birth. He studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna under Karl Hasenauer. Urban first received recognition as an architect in the USA in 1904 when his design for the interior of the Austrian Pavilion at the World’s Fair in St Louis, MO, was awarded a Gold Medal. He subsequently established himself in Europe as a stage designer; in 1911 he emigrated to the USA to assume a position as set designer with the Boston Opera Company.

After the completion of the Ziegfield Theater (1922), New York, Urban solidified his reputation as an architect with unexecuted proposals for several large theatres. For the Metropolitan Opera House, intended as the focal point of the first schemes for the Rockefeller Center (1926–8), he proposed a semi-circular seating arrangement, to which he added galleries that projected from the proscenium into the seating area to break down the separation between audience and stage. In ...

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Véra, Paul Bernard  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 25 December 1882, in Paris; died 26 November 1957, in St-Germain-en-Laye.

Painter, watercolourist, engraver (wood), illustrator, designer, ceramicist. Murals, designs for tapestries.

Art Deco.

Paul Bernard Véra was a pupil of Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier at the Atelier d'Art Sacré....

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Voguet, Léon  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 14 May 1879, in Paris.

Painter, illustrator, designer. Landscapes.

Art Deco.

Léon Voguet regularly exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon d'Automne. He illustrated the adaptation of De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater ( L'Anglais Mangeur d'Opium...