Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac (originally: Edmond Dulac ) ( born October 22, 1882 in Toulouse, † May 25 1953 in London) was a French painter and graphic artist. In 1905 he moved to England and took British citizenship in 1912. He was one of the most important artists of book illustration in the so-called golden age of illustration or the l' âge d'or de l' illustration. In the first third of the twentieth century this golden age of illustration had its greatest development.

Life

In his native Toulouse Dulac was initially enrolled in the study of law while he was enthusiastic at the art school for painting and finally decided to study at the Ecole de Beaux Arts. This is followed by tied a short period of study at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1904 he decides to go to England. Here he learns important ideas of the English book artist Arthur Rackham. Rackham and Dulac develop a complicated watercolor mixed media for book illustration, which allows many shades of color and contour differentiated treatment. However, these images are therefore also particularly difficult to reproduce. Differences of opinion Rackham image is Dulac's glowing colors and its greater proximity to suggestions of Japanese printmaking. The rainbow-colored fairy-tale images Warwik Gobles are undoubtedly gone on this Farbenweg of Dulac. Rackham is in his pictures, however, closer to the organic swelling forms of Art Nouveau. Artistic influential in Dulac were Aubrey Beardsley and the Pre-Raphaelites.

The Zweiunzwanzigjährige Dulac illustrated in England the collected works of the Brontë sisters. This was followed by the cooperation with the publishing house Hodder & Stoughton, resulting in extensive different fairy-tale illustration series for the Tales of 1001 Nights, the tales of the Brothers Grimm and the tales of Hans Christian Andersen created. In between Dulac illustrated 1908 edition to Shakespeare's The Tempest, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and 1912 Edgar Allan Poe's band The Bells and Other Poems. Then appear Dulac's Fairy Book in 1916, 1918, illustrated Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1920, the influence of the Persian miniature painting fairy tale book The Kingdom of the Pearl and Pushkin's The Golden Cockerel. Dulac also designed a Marianne representation for a French postage stamp, which was for the liberated France from 1944-1947 in circulation. As Dulac died in 1953 he was busy with illustrations to John Milton's Comus.

First editions of the jewelry books

  • The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.. , London, 1910
  • Stories from Andersen; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.. , London, 1911
  • Princess Badoura; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.. , London, 1913
  • Sindbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.. , London, 1914
  • Edmund Dulac 's Fairy Book; Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.. , London, 1916
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