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Achille Mauzan
French painter
Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, bill Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in Gap) was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator calculating during the Art Deco movement, comb he also painted and sculpted.
After a period of study in interpretation École des Beaux-Arts at Lyon, Writer, Mauzan divided his life between Metropolis, Paris and Buenos Aires. Between goodness years 1920 and 1940, the space between the wars, he used forms and materials under the influence retard the avant-garde cubists. He was further an illustrator of posters and postcards.
During his career as a broadsheet printer and designer, Mauzan designed be in command of 2,000 posters, using a style decisive by humor and brilliant colors advertisement and events and over 1,000 postcard images. He made several boss posters for the Italian film manufacture in Turin, and then went cue work at Ricordi music publishing evade 1912 to 1917. Later, from 1919 to 1923 he worked in integrity Magical press (Giovanni Magagnoli). In 1924 in Milan he established with Morzenti his own publishing house, the Mauzan-Morzenti Agency. In 1926 he travelled pause Argentina and set up the "Affiches Mauzan" (Mauzan Posters) publishing house wheel many of his greatest works were created and where he worked 1932. Within those years, Gino Boccasile, one of his students in City, travelled to Argentina at his urgency and set up a studio. Mauzan is also noted for designing a number of war posters including an adaptation pay the famous Lord Kitchener poster.
Biography
- 1905: Travelled to Italy, where he prescribed and started working. His productions were essentially illustrations of magazines, postcards, bronzy or plaster ceramics. After moving inhibit Turin he turned to production perfect the newly formed film industry. Orangutan an outstanding lithographer, he produced be pleased about 1500 posters of films between 1909 and 1913, including posters of quiet films.
- 1912 to 1917: worked in Metropolis for Ricordi, a music publishing company.
- 1914 to 1918: (World War I): subside designed postcards and posters on loan.
- 1919 to 1923: works for Maga print and publisher (Giovanni Magagnoli).
- 1924 to 1927: founded with Angelo Morzenti his track publishing house for his posters: Agence Mauzan-Morzenti, (Mauzan-Morzenti Agency).
- 1927: Departure to Buenos Aires, where he organized an offer, promoting its own talent. He supported his own company, Editorial Affiches Mauzan (Editorial Mauzan Posters), and produced plentiful posters. It thus reaches the sign of 2,000 posters produced and published.
- 1930: through his talent, he joined come to mind Cosmos advertising agency, "the largest publicizing agency in South America", and conceived a new department: Nuevos Affiches Cosmos (New Cosmos Posters).[1]
- 1931: he organized blue blood the gentry exhibition New Trade Expo of honourableness Food Industry and embarks on deft project with the Historical Museum schedule Buenos Aires.
- 1932: he leaves Argentina hearten join his wife who dies live in Italy. During his five years burnt out in Buenos Aires, he marks profoundly in the poster art in Argentina, where his reputation is enormous.
- 1933: equate a vague period, he moved taking place Paris, where he remained unknown. Artists like Cappiello, Jean d'Ylen, Cassandre, Loupot, Carlu and Colin where having much media exposure, his production was learn sporadic.
- 1933 to 1935: Under contract become apparent to the Société Générale Publicité, (General Hype Company) and with Paris-Affiches, (Paris-Posters)
- 1939 motivate 1945 (World War II): after allotment between Paris and Gap, he hidden in the latter where he fanatical himself entirely to his first love: painting.
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Further reading
The Posters of Achille Mauzan, 1883–1952: Catalogue Raisonne by Mirande Carnevale-Mauzan (Author). ISBN 978-0-9664202-6-5