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On the occasion of the exhibition “Toulouse-Lautrec. In addition, the art of poster”, visible until August 31 at the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi, we present a poster every week, produced by the painter. Similarly, This week: Babylon of Germany. Similarly,
To close our series on the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec. Therefore, make way for “Babylon d’An Germany”. For example, A brush and spitting lithography, in four colors, made in 1894, not very well known to the general public.
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This poster launched the promotion of Victor Joze’s new social novel: “Babylon of Germany”. Furthermore, After the success of the “Queen of Joy” poster. posters toulouse-lautrec: how albigensian painter designed to promote her novel on the depravations of the customs of the French bourgeois (1892), the author asked his friend and neighbor Toulouse-Lautrec to make a new one. In this new novel. he castigates the corruption of Berliners, in a critical spirit marked by the spirit of revenge after the war of 1870, following which France ceded Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.
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For his poster. the Albigensian painter chooses a passage from the novel describing the arrival in Berlin of the Emperor on horseback. Horse paintings are among the first works of Toulouse-Lautrec. And we can once again notice the quality of the animal’s drawing. As in many of its posters. it uses the diagonal (more supported than for others) to give movement to the drawing.
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One of the peculiarities of Lautrec is to be inspired by real characters for its posters. Here, it is Guillaume II himself that he stages by giving him the features of the soldier to the guard. And to top it all. he colors his poster of yellow, red and black, the colors associated with Germany since the beginning of the 19th century.
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Suffice to say that the poster does not have much across the Rhine. “The Embassy of the German Empire indeed requires the deletion of the poster. but Toulouse-Lautrec did not give in to pressures and published it itself on account of the author.” A very good idea. At a time when antigermanism is posters toulouse-lautrec: how albigensian painter at the highest, the coast of the works of Lautrec Quadrupla.
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Posters toulouse-lautrec: how albigensian painter
Further reading: A contemporary stone house in Portugal – In Amsterdam, an Art Deco interior, between Flemish and French chic searches – Fabrice Mercier publishes a photo album from Strasbourg all in synchronicity – A 42m2 vintage two-piece in primary colors – In Sherbrooke, graffiti oscillates between art and vandalism.