Henri-Gabriel Ibels

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Self-portrait in La Plume magazine (1893)
Toulouse-Lautrec: Portrait of Ibels (1893)

Henri-Gabriel Ibels (born November 30, 1867 in Paris ; died January 31, 1936 in Paris) was a French printmaker, painter and author.

Life

Henri-Gabriel Ibels' brother was the writer and anarchist André Ibels (1872-1932). The half-sister Louise Catherine Ibels (1891-1965) also became a painter.

Ibels made his baccalaureate in 1884. He was largely self-taught, he studied only briefly in 1886/87 at the Paris School of Applied Arts and in 1888/89 at the Académie Julian and in 1889 became a co-founder of the Les Nabis group . He was friends with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , both published a picture folder about the café concert . Ibels founded a short-lived magazine, L'Escarmouche , in 1893 . He drew for political magazines such as Le Père Peinard and the anarchist magazine L'Assiette au beurre, edited by his brother . In the Dreyfus affairhe took sides for Dreyfus and founded the magazine Le Sifflet in 1898 .

Ibels painted posters for the theater and cabaret and he illustrated books by Emile Zola and a new edition of the novel Sébastien Roch by Octave Mirbeau and La Fille Élisa by Edmond de Goncourt . In 1891 he exhibited his paintings for the first time in the Salon des Indépendants , and an exhibition in the Bodinière Gallery in 1894 also showed sculptures and fans . Ibels was also a writer of plays. After the First World War he worked as an art teacher in schools.

Ibels was inducted into the Legion of Honor in 1914 . The town of Lagny-sur-Marne named a street after him. Ibels' pictures hang in the Musée départemental Maurice-Denis Le Prieuré , among others .

  • Graphics, pictures and posters

  • Prince Henri d'Orléans congratulates Esterházy on the outcome of the trial of Émile Zola (1898)

  • Lady Justice in the Dreyfus Affair. Caricature in Le Sifflet (1898)

  • Mime (1898)

  • Exhibition at the Théâtre de la Bodinière (1894)

  • Andree Sumac (around 1897)

  • Circus scene. Design for a fan (around 1890)

  • Appearance of the singer Jules Mévisto in La Scala (1892)

Fonts (selection)

  • Allons-y! Cette édition comprend toute la collection des dessins de H.-G. Ibels parus dans le Sifflet. P.-V. Stock, Paris 1898.
  • with P. Morgand: La Neige: piece en deux actes. Librairie Théatrale, Paris 1903.

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personal data
SURNAME Ibels, Henri-Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibels, Henri Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French graphic artist, painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1936
Place of death Paris