Charles Loupot, Sérodent ad, 1935

Art Deco Posters - A Few More Important Artists

Here are more of the best Art Deco Posters and their creators, working in Paris and beyond. Jean Carlu, the third of the three Cs working in poster design in Paris at the time, the other two: Cassandre and Colin , began his career as an architect. After losing his right arm in an accident, he concentrated on poster design.

His subject matter may not be as glamourous as the other two C's Shipping or Jazz inspired works, but his advertisements for soap (Mon Savon) and toothpaste demonstrate an equally formidable talent for Art Deco Posters.

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Jean Carlu

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Another great poster designer was known only as Orsi. He designed over 1000 posters including a stunning image for Josephine Baker at Theatre de L'Etoile, but the identity of this artist has remained a mystery!

The painter Jean Dupas, known mainly for his large scale murals, produced a lovely series of posters for Saks Fifth Avenue. His monumental image for the promotion of Bordeaux, his birthplace, is one of the most reproduced Art Deco images , with a large nude surrounded by stylished architectural columns, topped by a modern ocean liner, as well as a traditional sailing ship.

Jean Chassaing studied with the great poster designers Cassandre and Paul Colin and was heavily influenced by them. He was widely known as a collector of Art Deco posters, and it was only 65 years after his death that many of his own works were discovered, on the sale of his collection. His most striking poster was one of Josephine Baker in 1930.

Charles Loupot's most well known poster was for the 1925 Paris Expo, which influenced many later designers of Exposition posters.

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Charles Loupot

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Much of the rest of his output was based on fairly mundane products such as alcohol, cigarettes, sun oil and hair products, but what heights of design and style he brought to these everyday items.

The chic and stylish tourism posters that Roger Broders produced for the French railway company PLM, are amongst the most popular Art Deco posters today.

Robert Bonfils' poster for the 1925 Expo uses images that have become typical Art Deco motifs, the Greek Maiden, and a leaping deer.

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Outside Paris

Many European poster artists were inspired by the French graphic designers, particularly Cassandre, whose influence can been seen in the work of many poster designers throughout Europe and also Japan and America.

The Dutch artist Willem Ten Broek produced some fantastic shipping posters, as did the Belgian Leo Marfurt.

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Leo Marfurt

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Ludwig Hohlwein was a proflific German artist producing posters for a wide range of subjects, including horse racing and polo, golf, railways, and beer. Like Germany, Italy also had many excellent poster artists, until poster art was taken over by the Fascist propaganda machines in these two countries.Italian poster designers include Marcello Nizzoli,and Severo Pozzzati, although the latter worked in France under the name of Sepo. Posters for Olivetti and Fiat from Italy are becoming very collectable these days.

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Art Deco - Jean Carlu

Born in Bonnières, France, Jean Carlu came from a family of architects and studied to enter that profession. After an accident at the age of eighteen in which he lost his right arm, Carlu turned to graphic design. His early work reveals a fascination with the angular forms and spatial nuances of Cubism.

As Carlu's work evolved over the next two decades, it continued to show a concern with the geometric shapes of Cubism, but this was manifested in very different ways. Carlu sought to create a symbolic language in which color, line, and content would represent emotional values. His work thus achieved a distinctive, streamlined economy of form, rarely incorporating narrative or illustrative elements.

Carlu spent the years of World War II in the United States, where he executed a number of important poster designs for the government's war effort. Characterized by the same scientific precision of form as his other work, these designs were well suited to the promotion of industrial efficiency. Both American and international design traditions continue to reflect his influence.