Draner

Draner, actually Jules Jean Georges Renard ( born November 11, 1833 in Liege, † 1926 in Paris ) was a Belgian painter, draftsman and caricaturist. The 1861 Paris-based artist worked as an illustrator for numerous well-known newspapers and later designed costumes for several renowned theaters and opera houses.

Life

Jules Renard came in 1833 in Liège, the son of a book printer to the world. His later stage name Draner he anagrammatically from his last name Renard. In addition, he spent some time the artist name Paf! . After school, he worked in the management of the Société des Mines et de Zinc de la Vieille Fonderies -Montagne, a company of the zinc industry in his hometown. Self-taught, he began drawing cartoons and created first, where he found his motifs in everyday life of Liege and soon worked with local newspapers. His drawings also published the newspaper Uylenspiegel founded in Brussels by Félicien Rops.

In 1861 he moved to Paris, where the Société des Mines et de Zinc de la Vieille Fonderies -Montagne had a branch. In his drawings, caricatured Draner at the beginning of his Paris years, notably the military life. Between 1861 and 1864 arose as 136 colored lithographs of this topic, in which he drew the military of various nationalities in an ironic way. He published these pictures in albums such as type militaires de toutes les nations, Nouvelle vie militaire or Le colonel Ramollot. From 1866 he worked as an illustrator for the satirical magazine Le Charivari, where he became the successor in 1879 as a regular illustrator of Amédée de Noé. In addition, his drawings appeared in magazines such as L' Eclipse, Le Monde Classique, Paris -Comique, L' Illustration, Le Monde Illustré, Le journal pour rire amusing and Petit Journal.

From 1864 to 1893 Draner also designed costumes for theater and opera houses. His imaginative stage costumes were designed for performances of La Scala in Milan, the Drury Lane Theatre in London, the Théâtre des Galeries Saint- Hubert in Brussels, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as the Parisian stages Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre de la Renaissance, Éden - Théâtre or the Folies Bergère.

Draner died in Paris in 1926. His drawings estate he bequeathed to the University of Liège.