Biographies

Leonetto Cappiello was born in Livorno (Italy) on 6 April 1875 and died in Cannes France, on 2 February 1942. He was a painter, poster artist and illustrator of the original Italian. Headquartered in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, became a naturalized French in 1930, is considered, following Jules Cheret, as the renovator of the poster in France. Leonetto Cappiello he studied and published in Livorno in Italy at the age of twenty his first album of caricatures. Installed in 1898 in Paris, where he began his career as a cartoonist, he worked for many newspapers, including Le Rire, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Cri de Paris. A year later, was a great success for the release of an album, our actresses, synthetic pictures, published by La Revue Blanche in 1899.Su billsticker race begins the following year and continues until 1930.It remains faithful to the printing house Vercasson until early 1920, remains in place and begins printing while working regularly for the publisher Devambez. Aboutaam Leonetto Cappiello is also known for his grotesque statuettes, clay or plaster, as R jane and "Yvette Guilbert, and his illustrations for books like The Princess of Babylon, the murdered poet Voltaire and Apollinaire, and his portraits, including them of Henri de Regnier and his brother Paul Adam. Among his most famous posters we can cite: Cachou LAJAUNIE (1900), Chocolat Klaus (1905), mantle (1909), Cinzano (1910), Bouillon Kub (1911), paper smoking JOB (1912), savor the flavor (1930), Bally Shoes (1931), Bouillon Kub (1931), Dubonnet (1932).