Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 10 March 1871, in Waidhofen-am-Ybbs; died 19 May 1956, in Vienna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Genre scenes. Toys.
Art Nouveau.
Secession group.
Andri studied under Julius Berger and Edouard Lichtenfels at the Venice Academy, then, from 1892, under Claus Meyer at Karlsruhe Academy, before returning to settle in Venice. In ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in Japan.
Born 1860, in Paris; died 1927.
Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator, poster artist.
Japonisme, Art Nouveau.
At a very young age, Georges Ferdinand Bigot trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) and Carolus-Durand (1837-1917) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He learnt etching with Félix Buhot and collaborated on the journal ...
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: ...
(b Brooklyn, NY, Oct 27, 1877; d White Plains, NY, July 13, 1949).
American painter, illustrator and lithographer. As an organizer of the Armory Show (1913) alongside Arthur B. Davies, he played an integral role in unveiling European modernism to the USA. While he painted landscapes of Maine, Cézanne-inspired still lifes and a series based on the American West, his expressive portraits of circus and vaudeville performers remain his best-known works.
In 1901, he trained at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, but soon transferred to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich where he studied under Barbizon painter Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941) until 1903. Upon returning to New York in 1903, he worked as an illustrator for publications such as Life and Puck, exhibited at the Salmagundi Club (1905) and organized artists’ balls for the Kit Kat Club. Working in an Impressionist style, he participated with Robert Henri in the Exhibition of Independent Artists (1910)....
[Lisitsky, El’ ; Lisitsky, Lazar’ (Markovich )]
(b Pochinok, Smolensk province, Nov 23, 1890; d Moscow, Dec 30, 1941).
Russian draughtsman, architect, printmaker, painter, illustrator, designer, photographer, teacher, and theorist.
After attending school in Smolensk, he enrolled in 1909 at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, to study architecture and engineering. He also travelled extensively in Europe, however, and he made a tour of Italy to study art and architecture. He frequently made drawings of the architectural monuments he encountered on his travels. These early graphic works were executed in a restrained, decorative style reminiscent of Russian Art Nouveau book illustration. His drawings of Vitebsk and Smolensk (1910; Eindhoven, Stedel. Van Abbemus.), for example, show a professional interest in recording specific architectural structures and motifs, but they are simultaneously decorative graphic works in their own right and highly suitable for publication. This innate awareness of the importance of controlling the design of the page was to remain a feature of Lissitzky’s work throughout radical stylistic transformations. He also recorded buildings in Ravenna, Venice, and elsewhere in Italy in ...
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 ...
Russian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 7 January 1865, in St Petersburg; died 22 November 1911, in Moscow.
Painter, illustrator, designer. Mythological subjects, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. Stage sets.
Art Nouveau, Symbolism.
Peredvizhniki (Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions), Abramtsevo Artists’ Colony.
The son of the composer Alexander Serov and the musician Valentina Bergman, ...
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....
