Umberto Brunelleschi (born the June 21st 1879 with Pistoia, Tuscan - died the February 16th 1949 with Paris) was a painter, illustrator and Italian poster artist.

Biography

After having studied with Florence and having taken part in various exposures in Italy, Umberto Brunelleschi left its native land and was established in Paris, where it had found a work as illustrator for the famous magazine the Laughter , in November 1900. In the first years of the 20th century, it bound very quickly with the medium of the young poets attending the Latin Quarter and started to expose to the Salon of Independent the.

It gave drawings to the Assiette with butter and also collaborated in various luxurious reviews of mode such as the Layers of Art , the gazette of the good tone, Fémina , the Newspaper of the Ladies and the Modes. He was also the artistic director of a review transitory (1919 - 1920), but noticed: the Garland of art and the literature . Ambitious of a rarer work, the artist however did not scorn then to compose of the billboards for a department store. He becomes portraitist, coloring his modernism of florentines influences.

In the the Twenties, Umberto Brunelleschi diversified its activities by creating costumes for the reviews of the Folies Shepherdess or of the Casino of Paris and for the theater (Châtelet in Paris, and of the theaters with New York, in Italy and Germany). He was the creator many costumes for Joséphine Baker.

The career of Brunelleschi is before all that of an illustrator having heard at the same time the lesson of our gallant Masters of the 18th century and that of the buffoons of the Comedia LED arte . Luc Monod counts nearly 30 works illustrated by Brunelleschi, for authors such as Andersen, Gabriele d' Annunzio, Charles Perrault, Jean of the Fountain, Boccace (the Décaméron ), Diderot, Voltaire ( Candide , Ingenuous the ), Goethe, Musset or the abbot Prévost. Its original gouaches for the illustration of books were regularly exposed in the various Living rooms in Paris and the Biennale de Venise.

External bonds

1. Some illustrations of works of Boccace, Voltaire, Jean of the Fountain, etc… by Umberto Brunelleschi

2. Some works of Umberto Brunelleschi for '' the Garland of art and the literature '' (1919-1920) on the site Artophile
3. “'' Couple dancing ''” (1928), in the database of the '' Fine Arts Natural history musea off San Francisco ''
4. “'' Wire of Titien ''” (1948), on the site '' I desired vintage posters ''
5. “'' Madrid ''” (1948), on the site '' I desired vintage posters ''

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