Georges Lepape

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Georges Lepape (born May 26, 1887 in Paris , France , † February 15, 1971 in Bonneval , Département Eure-et-Loir , France) was a French fashion draftsman , poster artist and engraver, whose style was particularly groundbreaking for the 1920s and 1930s .

Life

At the age of eighteen, Lepape enrolled at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts . At the age of twenty, he already had relationships with well-known artists such as Georges Braque , Marie Laurencin , Bernard Boutet de Monval , André Édouard Marty and Charles Martin . In 1908 he exhibited for the first time in the Salon d'Automne . The following year he married Gabrielle Lauzanne.

With the autumn salon of 1910, Lepape began working with couturier Paul Poiret for over twelve years . The first joint work, entitled Les choses de Paul Poiret , showed for the first time models that were in natural motion, that ran out of the picture or even turned their backs on the viewer. The publisher Lucien Vogel became aware of the draftsman and Lepape became one of the most important draftsmen in the fashion magazine Gazette du bon ton between 1912 and 1925 .

From the 1920s Lepape worked for fashion houses such as Worth , Lanvin , Paquin , Doucet . His drawings were in demand for advertising perfumes, furs, and other luxury goods. For various magazines such as B. Harpers Bazaar , Vanity Fair , Vogue , he designed the covers. Furthermore, theatrical equipment such. B. for the Ballets Russes , designs for costumes and sets for the director Marcel L'Herbier , a series of posters for the Parisian Galeries Lafayette . He also designed posters for movies, created illustrations for catalogs and also for industrial products.

In 1920 Lepape took part in the exhibition La Mode du XXième siècle vu par les peintres at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. During this time he worked as a designer in two films and took on a role as an actor in 1926. In the same year the Condé-Nast publishing house called him to New York , where he worked for six months on the front pages of eight issues of American Vogue in 1927 and also for some of the covers of Vanity Fair . In the USA he found new customers like Wanamaker's Department Store , Femina Magazine and started working for Hermès .

After the Second World War, Lepape illustrated about 30 books for authors such as Sacha Guitry and Paul Géraldy , as well as classics such as Plato and Alfred de Musset . He built his retirement home in Sainte-Maxime in the Var department in Provence .

Exhibitions

Illustrated works

  • 1909: Charles Dousdebès: La Journée blanche , Annales politiques et littéraires.
  • 1927: Maurice Maeterlinck : Décors et costumes pour L'Oiseau Bleu .
  • 1941: Pétrone : Le Satiricon . Éditions Émile Chamontin, Paris.
  • 1942: Stendhal : L'Abesse de Castro , Édition du centenaire. Éditions Émile Chamontin, Paris.
  • 1945: Paul Géraldy. L'Amour . Édition de l'Île de France.
  • 1955: Victor Hugo : Œvres complêtes . A. Martel, Givers.

literature

  • Claude Lepape and Thierry Defert: Georges Lepape, ou l'Élégance illustrée . Editions Herscher, Paris 1983.
    • English: From the Ballets Russes to Vogue: The Art of Gorges Lepape . The Vendome Press, 1984, ISBN 0-86565-045-4 .
    • German: Georges Lepape: illustrations, posters, fashion design . Propylaeen-Verlag, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-549-06664-3 .

Web links

Commons : Georges Lepape  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lepape, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French fashion draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 1971
Place of death Bonneval , France