Théophile Alexandre Steinlen

THÉOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN (Switzerland, 1859 - France, 1923).
"Croquis de temps de guerre nº1, 1914, 1915 and 1916".
Set of 17 lithographs in blue and black ink on Velin d'Arches paper, copy 163/400.
Ed. La Guerre Paris.
Signed and justified.
Some of the lithographs are damaged.
With its original folder.
Measurements: 28 x 38 cm.

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen was a French-Swiss painter and illustrator of the modernist period. He also worked the sculpture, both the relief and the round bulk, as well as the lithography and the photography. He was educated at the University of Lausanne, his hometown, and after finishing his studies he began working in a textile factory in Mulhouse, in the east of France. At the same time he continued to develop his talent as a painter, and finally moved to Paris on the advice of the painter François Bocion. There he joined the group of artists grouped around Le Chat Noir. There he began his career as a painter and illustrator, receiving commissions from people like Aristide Bruant. In the 1890s he began to exhibit his landscapes, vases and nudes at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. In the same decade he published his first illustrations and began to cultivate sculpture, mainly representing cat figures. From then on he collaborated regularly with the publications "Le Rire" and "Gil Blas", among others, where he published mostly satirical illustrations. He is currently represented in the Louvre and Orsay Museums in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in Washington D.C., the Metropolitan in New York and other important collections.