Léon Bénigni

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Léon Benigni (* 1892 in Paris ; † 1948 ) was a French commercial artist and was in the 20th century as gefragtester Mode - Illustrator his time.

Life

Luxury and elegance around 1929
Front cover of Femina magazine
circa 1920s
Poster for Brides-les-Bains

Léon Bénigni was still in Hanover during the German Empire , where he initially worked as a bank clerk in 1910.

However, as early as the 1920s, like Bernard Boutet de Monvel and others, he had developed into one of the leading “creators of the modern fashion style”. He drew long, slender and especially female figures in fine lines, which he let appear in a color scheme that was typically French at the time, for example pale pink, deep blue and grass green.

Bénigni drew a lot for English-language magazines, worked for revues like Harper's Bazaar and French papers like Modes et Traveaux , L'Officiel and others. He created cover pages for the French fashion magazine Femina and designed the cover page for the first edition of the textile industry magazine International textiles, which appeared on December 15, 1933 .

Bénigni also illustrated works of classical literature. His illustrations for Alfred de Musset's poems are counted among his best.

In his typical way, Léon Bénigni also designed advertisements, billboards, magazine covers and other illustrations with which he - placed between square advertisements from German and Italian producers - presented a dress by the fashion designer Jean Patou .

literature

Web links

Commons : Léon Benigni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Traugott Schalcher: Léon Bénigni , in Hermann Karl Frenzel (Hrsg.): Nutzgraphik . International Advertising Art , in German and English with numerous illustrations, edition dated June 1, 1930, pp. 20–31 Digital version via the International Advertising & Design DataBase (IADDB)
  2. ^ Jean-Pierre Turmel: Sordide sentimental (in French), Volume 2: Gouffres & Cimes , Rosières-en-Haye: Camion blanc, imprimé 2012, ISBN 978-2-35779-209-8 , p. 246; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Birgit Liesenklas: René Gruau and the fashion illustration in the 20th century , dissertation 1992 at the University of Bonn, Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1993, p. 139; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Bénigni, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and fashion graphic artist, poster artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1948