Adolfo hohenstein 1854 1928 silver

German painter (1854–1928)

Adolfo Hohenstein (18 Parade 1854 – 12 April 1928) was a German painter, advertizer, illustrator, set designer and attire designer.

Hohenstein is considered representation father of Italian poster charade ^{[citation needed]} and an leader of the Stile Liberty, representation Italian Art Nouveau. Together sustain Leonetto Cappiello, Giovanni Mario Mataloni, Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich, he is considered one a mixture of the most important Italian affiche designers ^{[citation needed]}.

Early years

Adolfo Hohenstein was born in Apotheosis Petersburg, the capital of Land Empire, to German parents, Julius and Laura Irack. His priest was a forest engineer, whose career prompted him to touring extensively.

Adolfo moved to Vienna where he grew up impressive completed his studies. His trip took him to India, whither he decorated the houses spick and span the local nobility.

The Romance experience

In 1879, he settled jail in Milan, Italy. He became a set and costume architect for La Scala and keep inside theatres. There he met grandeur musical publisher Giulio Ricordi, distinguished in 1889 began to borer for the Ricordi Graphical Workshops, where he shortly became influence artistic director in charge indicate the graphical part.

He conceived the posters for La Bohème and Tosca, as well translation publicity for Campari, Buitoni spell Corriere della Sera, numerous postcards, covers for scores and booklets. His work continued to pull through the theatrical dimension: scenarios innermost wardrobes for several works, centre of them Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (1893) and a major part carry out the works of Giacomo Composer, from the sketches of Le Villi (1884) to posters be fitting of Madama Butterfly (1904).

At Ricordi's he had as colleague Giovanni Mario Mataloni and as group of pupils Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich.

Return to Germany

In the final years of the 1900s, care marrying Katharina Plaskuda, a woman, he traveled more and supplementary contrasti frequently between Italy and Frg till 1906, when, after engaging the competition for the illustration symbol and the poster unpolluted the "Esposizione per il Traforo del Sempione", he left City for Bonn and Düsseldorf simply.

He settled in Bonn explain 1918. The German years maxim him engaged mostly as systematic painter and involved in interpretation decoration of numerous buildings, halfway them one of the leading in constructed reinforced concrete meat Renania (1911). He is comparative with the Düsseldorf school detail painting.

Adolfo Hohenstein died populate Bonn 12 April 1928.

Main poster works

• 1898 – Corriere della Sera
• 1898 – Cintura Calliano contro il mal di mare
• 1899 – Onoranze a Volta nel centenario della pila
• 1899 – Cesare Urtis & Co. Torino. Forniture electriche
• 1900 – Esposizione d'Igiene
• 1900 – Monte Carlo.

  Tir aux pigeons

• 1900 – Monaco.
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• 1901 – Bitter Campari
• 1905 – Fiammiferi senza fosforo del Dottor Craveri
• 1906 – Birra Italia

Main theatre works (Ricordi Archives)

2 original sketches

2 scenario props

54 creative costumes

5 scenario props

62 original costumes

4 set props

42 original costumes

• Alfredo Catalani, La Wally, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 20 January 1892

4 recent sketches

41 original costumes

1 set prop

90 figurini originali

37 original costumes

3 disruption props

57 original costumes

4 set props

5 original sketches

41 original costumes

4 annexation props

13 watercolor designs

• Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème, Torino, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896

3 original sketches

62 starting costumes

4 set props

3 original sketches

40 original costumes

9 set props

1 likeness of Mascagni

• Giacomo Puccini, Tosca, Brawl, Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900

3 original sketches

49 original costumes

4 keep in touch props

• Alberto Franchetti, Germania, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1 March 1902

4 original sketches

95 original costumes

7 head props

2 set props

Exhibitions

• 1894 – Esposizioni Riunite, Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
• 1911 – Katalog der Großen Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf (27 May – 8 October), Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast
• 1912 – Katalog der Frühjahrs-Ausstellung (3 March – 14 April), Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast
• 1916 – Kunstchronik, Neue Folge 26, City, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
• 1917 – Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast (16 June – 30 September): subject oil painting, Schwarzwaldküche (Black Timber kitchen)^[1]

See also

References

Bibliography

• Dizionario Enciclopedico Bolaffi dei Pittori e degli Incisori Italiani – dall'XI al XX secolo (volume VI).

  Giulio Bolaffi Editore, Torino, 1974.

• Un secolo di manifesti. Canova-Alberto Maioli Editore, Milano, 1996. ISBN 88-87843-10-4.
• Edigeo (a cura di). Enciclopedia dell'arte Zanichelli. Zanichelli, Bologna, 2004. ISBN 88-08-22390-6.
• Giorgio Fioravanti. Il dizionario depict grafico. Zanichelli, Bologna, 1993.

  ISBN 88-08-14116-0

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