Pierre Fix-Masseau

Pierre Fix-Masseau (* 1905 , † 1994 ) was a French graphic artist and son of Pierre-Félix Fix-Masseau .

Biographical note

Fix-Masseau studied at the École Boulle and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He started working for the Paris printer Nortier in 1927. A year later he became a student of the Ukrainian-French illustrator AM Cassandre in Versailles. Alongside Rex Whistler (1905–1944) and Cassandre, Pierre Fix-Masseau is considered the leading poster draftsman of his epoch, the Art Deco era. Traffic was a popular Art Deco theme (contrasted with the dynamism that the theme requires is the frozen geometric shape). Between 1929 and 1939 he worked for the Paris publishing house Edita, after the war for the publishing house Aljanvic, as well as for a number of large companies (Shell, Air France, Philips) and Loterie Nationale.

Work (selection)

• Pullman Express "Cote d´Azur" (lithograph, 1929)
• "Exactitude" (lithograph, 1932, his most famous poster, showing a black locomotive, for the ETAT railway company )
• Advertisement for Renault (1936, Huiles Renault) and Delahaye (1937, Cabriot 135 M)
• Tourism advertising (e.g. for Mont St-Michel)
• Advertising for football in the service of the Red Cross
• Advertisement for silk stockings "Marie-Claire"
• Advertisement for the 1965 Paris Motor Show
• Series about the Orient Express (London Victoria Station, Venice-Simplon, 1980s, Centenaire de L´Orient Express, 1983)
• Advertisement for the Monaco Grand Prix (1990)

swell

• Pierre Fix-Masseau
• Paris posters
• Pierre Fix-Masseau, Affiches 1928 - 1983, Catalog de L´Exposition Galerie Mansart, 23 November 1983 - 15 January 1984 (published by the Bibliotheque Nationale, published in 1983)
• Thierry Favre: Railway posters . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-3771-2 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Présentation de l'Ecole Boulle ( Memento of April 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Adolphe Cassandre . In: articons.co.uk