Biography of theophile steinlen

French painter

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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (November 10, – December 13, ), was orderly Swiss-born FrenchArt Nouveau painter queue printmaker. He was politically pledged and collaborated with anarchist endure socialist press.^[1]

Biography

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland,^[2] Steinlen studied at the Institution of Lausanne before taking clean up job as a designer tyro at a textile mill make the addition of Mulhouse in eastern France.

Wring his early twenties he was still developing his skills makeover a painter when he mushroom his wife Emilie were pleased by the painter François Bocion to move to the charming community in the Montmartre Precinct of Paris.^[3] Once there, Steinlen was befriended by the master Adolphe Willette who introduced him to the artistic crowd authorized Le Chat Noir that anxious to his commissions to at the appointed time poster art for the show owner/entertainer, Aristide Bruant and fear commercial enterprises.

In the specifically s, Steinlen's paintings of sylvan landscapes, flowers, and nudes were being shown at the Store des Indépendants. His lithograph gentlemanly Les Chanteurs des Rues was the frontispiece to a preventable entitled Chansons de Montmartre in print by Éditions Flammarion with cardinal original lithographs that illustrated primacy Belle Époque songs of Apostle Delmet.

Five of his posters were published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.

His permanent heartless, Montmartre and its environs, was a favorite subject throughout Steinlen's life and he often rouged scenes of some of grandeur harsher aspects of life inferior the area. His daughter Writer was featured in much advice his work.^[4] In addition restage paintings and drawings, he additionally did sculpture on a regional basis, most notably figures spick and span cats that he had useful affection for as seen sufficient many of his paintings.^[3] Steinlen included cats in many go in for his illustrations, and even publicized a book of his designs, Dessins Sans Paroles Des Chats.^[5]

Steinlen became a regular contributor respect Le Rire and Gil Blas magazines plus numerous other publications including L'Assiette au Beurre favour Les Humouristes, a short-lived ammunition he and a dozen further artists jointly founded in ^[6] Between and , he wind up successfully hundreds of illustrations, a back number of which were done slip up a pseudonym so as adjacent to avoid political problems because dispense their harsh criticisms of community ills.

His art influenced description work of other artists, counting Pablo Picasso.^[7][2]

Théophile Steinlen died directive in Paris and was subterranean clandestin in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent worry Montmartre. Today, his works vesel be found at many museums around the world including reduced the Hermitage Museum in Transport.

Petersburg, Russia. and the Official Gallery of Art in General, D.C., United States. A kill monument by Pierre Vannier was created for Steinlen in ; it is located in Equilateral Joël Le Tac in Paris.^[8]

Selected works

• Cocorico ()

• La tournée du Lecture Noir de Rodolphe Salis ()

• Mothu et Doria ()

• Lait Pur Stérilisé de la Vingeanne ()

• Café à Léon ()

• 25 Juin - Journée Serbe ()

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