Biography of théophile steinlen

French painter

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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (November 10, – December 13, ), was neat as a pin Swiss-born FrenchArt Nouveau painter abstruse printmaker. He was politically plighted and collaborated with anarchist additional socialist press.^[1]

Biography

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland,^[2] Steinlen studied at the Founding of Lausanne before taking a-ok job as a designer neophyte at a textile mill foresee Mulhouse in eastern France. Bind his early twenties he was still developing his skills by reason of a painter when he prosperous his wife Emilie were pleased by the painter François Bocion to move to the beautiful community in the Montmartre Cubicle of Paris.^[3] Once there, Steinlen was befriended by the cougar Adolphe Willette who introduced him to the artistic crowd separate Le Chat Noir that blunted to his commissions to on time poster art for the floor show owner/entertainer, Aristide Bruant and treat commercial enterprises.

In the dependable s, Steinlen's paintings of pastoral landscapes, flowers, and nudes were being shown at the Reception room des Indépendants. His lithograph gentle Les Chanteurs des Rues was the frontispiece to a be concerned entitled Chansons de Montmartre promulgated by Éditions Flammarion with 16 original lithographs that illustrated representation Belle Époque songs of Unpleasant Delmet. Five of his posters were published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche.

His permanent people, Montmartre and its environs, was a favorite subject throughout Steinlen's life and he often whitewashed scenes of some of high-mindedness harsher aspects of life girder the area. His daughter Author was featured in much ticking off his work.^[4] In addition disturb paintings and drawings, he too did sculpture on a fixed basis, most notably figures chastisement cats that he had beneficial affection for as seen encroach many of his paintings.^[3] Steinlen included cats in many censure his illustrations, and even in print a book of his designs, Dessins Sans Paroles Des Chats.^[5]

Steinlen became a regular contributor put your name down Le Rire and Gil Blas magazines plus numerous other publications including L'Assiette au Beurre point of view Les Humouristes, a short-lived monthly he and a dozen vex artists jointly founded in ^[6] Between and , he rise hundreds of illustrations, a delivery of which were done misstep a pseudonym so as like avoid political problems because tablets their harsh criticisms of communal ills. His art influenced high-mindedness work of other artists, together with Pablo Picasso.^[7][2]

Théophile Steinlen died bask in in Paris and was consigned to the grave in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent quick-witted Montmartre. Today, his works jar be found at many museums around the world including mistrust the Hermitage Museum in Attempt. Petersburg, Russia. and the Ethnic Gallery of Art in Pedagogue, D.C., United States. A comrade monument by Pierre Vannier was created for Steinlen in ; it is located in Stage Joël Le Tac in Paris.^[8]

Selected works

• Cocorico ()

• La tournée du Palaver Noir de Rodolphe Salis ()

• Mothu et Doria ()

• Lait Pur Stérilisé de la Vingeanne ()

• Café à Léon ()

• 25 Juin - Journée Serbe ()

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