Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac, 1882–1953, written in 1914

Edmund Dulac (originally Edmond Dulac ; born October 22, 1882 in Toulouse , † May 25, 1953 in London ) was a French painter and printmaker . In 1905 he moved to England and took British citizenship in 1912. He was one of the most important artists of book illustration in the so-called golden age of illustration or the âge d'or de l'illustration . This golden age of illustration had its greatest development in the first third of the twentieth century.

Life

In his birthplace Toulouse, Dulac was initially enrolled to study law, while he was enthusiastic about painting at the arts and crafts school and finally decided to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts. This was followed by a short study visit at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1904 he decided to go to England. Here he learned important suggestions from the English book artist Arthur Rackham . Rackham and Dulac developed a complicated watercolor mixing technique for book illustration that allowed many color nuances and differentiated treatment of contours. However, this also makes these images particularly difficult to reproduce. Dulac's bright colors and his greater proximity to the stimuli of Japanese printmaking differ from Rackham's view of the picture. The rainbow-colored fairy tale pictures of Warwik Goble undoubtedly continued this color path from Dulac. In contrast, Rackham's pictures are closer to the organically swelling forms of Art Nouveau. Artistically influential on Dulac were Aubrey Beardsley and the Pre-Raphaelites .

The twenty-two year old Dulac illustrated the collected works of the Brontë sisters in England . This was followed by the collaboration with the publishing house Hodder & Stoughton , which resulted in various extensive series of fairy tales illustrating the fairy tales from 1001 nights , the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and the fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen . In between, Dulac illustrated an edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1908 , Rubaiyat by Omar Chajjam, and Edgar Allan Poe's volume The Bells and other poems in 1912 . This was followed by Dulac's fairy book in 1916 , the illustrated Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1918 , and in 1920 the fairy tale book The Kingdom of Pearls and Pushkin's The Golden Rooster, influenced by Persian miniature painting . Dulac also designed a depiction of Marianne for a French postage stamp that was in circulation for liberated France from 1944 to 1947. When Dulac died in 1953 he was busy with illustrations for John Milton's Comus .

First editions of the jewelry books

The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales ; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1910
Stories from Andersen ; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1911
Princess Badoura ; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1913
Sindbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights ; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1914
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book ; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., London, 1916

literature

Sheffield City Art Galleries: Edmund Dulac. Illustrator and Designer, 1882–1953. A Centenary Exhibition , Sheffield 1983. ISBN 0-900660-90-2 .
Hans H. Hofstätter: Art Nouveau - graphics and printing art . Rheingauer Verlagsgesellschaft, Salzburg and Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-88102-062-4 .
Ann Hughey: Edmund Dulac - His Book Illustrations. A Bibliography , 1995, ISBN 0-964539-51-9 .
Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations in full color, ed. and selected by Jeff A. Menges; Dover Publications, Mineola / New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-486-43669-2 .

Web links

Commons : Edmund Dulac - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ See Hans H. Hofstätter: Art Nouveau - Graphics and Printing Art . Rheingauer Verlagsgesellschaft, Salzburg and Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-88102-062-4 , p. 54.

personal data
SURNAME	Dulac, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dulac, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter, printmaker, British
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1953
Place of death	London

[1] See Hans H. Hofstätter: Art Nouveau - Graphics and Printing Art . Rheingauer Verlagsgesellschaft, Salzburg and Baden-Baden 1987, ISBN 3-88102-062-4 , p. 54.