Achille mauzan biography

Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in Gap) was.
Achille Lucien Mauzan was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted.
(1883-1952, French) Commercial artist, graphic designer, illustrator, engraver, painter, sculptor.

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Biography:Achille Mauzan was born in 1883 as Lucian Achille Mauzan in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, in southeast France, although at some point he dropped his first name and just went by Achille. He studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France.

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In 1905, Mauzan moved to Milan, Italy, and in 1926 he moved to Buenas Aires, Argentina, where he set up his own poster publishing house. He was strongly influenced by Leonetto Cappiello, as well as by Adolfo Hohenstein, who he worked under at the Ricordi publishing house in Milan.

Mauzan is generally considered to be part of the Art Deco art movement that flourished between the First and Second World Wars. The vintage poster artist Gino Boccasile was his student. He died in 1952.

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Achille Luciano (Lucien) MAUZAN

Illustrator, painter, and sculptor, Achille Lucien Mauzan is one of the major poster artists of the Art Deco period.
Born in France, he moved to Italy in 1905 after studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He spent his life between Italy, Argentina and France.
He began his career in the Italian film industry, creating up to three posters a week! He produced more than 1,500 movie posters, including a famous one in France for Louis Feuillade's serial "Les Vampires, Les yeux qui fascinent" in 1916.
In 1912, he began working for Ricordi in Milan, then decided to found his own publishing house with Morzenti: the Mauzan-Morzenti Agency. His posters for famous brands such as Poncio Lupacchioli liqueur (1922) or Moretti raincoats (1921) highlight the quality of the products with humour and playfulness.
In 1927, he moved to Buenos Aires where he created the "Mauzan Posters" and designed his most important works. He returned to France in 1933 and worked for the Société Générale de Publicité and Paris-Affiches until 1940. He spent the last years of his l

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Achille Mauzan

French painter

Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in Gap) was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted.

After a period of study in the École des Beaux-Arts at Lyon, France, Mauzan divided his life between Milan, Paris and Buenos Aires. Between the years 1920 and 1940, the period between the wars, he used forms and materials under the influence of the avant-garde cubists. He was also an illustrator of posters and postcards.

During his career as a poster printer and designer, Mauzan designed over 2,000 posters, using a style marked by humor and brilliant colors for advertisement and events and over 1,000 postcard images. He made several important posters for the Italian film industry in Turin, and then went to work at Ricordi music publishing from 1912 to 1917. Later, from 1919 to 1923 he worked in the Magical press (Giovanni Magagnoli). In 1924 in Milan he established with Morzenti his own publishing house, th