Hugo d'Alési

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Illustration for the Maréorama ( Scientific American , 1900)
Railway poster from 1895

Hugo d'Alési (born February 10, 1849 in Sibiu , † November 11, 1906 in Paris ) was a Transylvanian graphic artist , painter and draftsman . His most famous work is the Maréorama , a monumental Mediterranean panorama shown at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , for which he was awarded the Legion of Honor .

Life

Alési was the son of the conductor Friedrich Alési. He first attended the Schäßburg high school . He then worked as a clerk in Kronstadt and then as a bookseller in Bucharest . In 1873 he went to Constantinople and worked for three years as a draftsman in the expansion of the port of Smyrna . In 1877 he went to Italy for artistic training and finally came to Paris, where he was employed by the lithographic company “Le Mercie”. From the beginning of the 1880s he designed posters for theaters and entertainment venues, from the beginning of the 1890s mainly posters and brochures for the French railway companies Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) , Chemin de fer de l'Est and also the Swiss Chemin de fer Jura-Simplon . His work became widely known to the contemporary public, and Alési gained a reputation as a designer of effective advertising poster graphics, primarily through these posters, produced in chromolithography or three-color printing, with motifs typical for tourism from the Riviera , the Côte d'Azur , the Alps and the Pyrenees .

He also worked on a universal written language based on ideographic symbols . Two works on this are preserved in the estate.

Exhibitions

  • 1901 Paris, Galerie Georges Petit (solo exhibition)
  • 1896 Centenaire de la Lithographie , Künstlerhaus Vienna

literature

personal data
SURNAME Alési, Hugo d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alessi, Hugo d '; Alési, Friedrich Hugo; Alessi, Friedrich Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian graphic artist, painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1906
Place of death Paris