Living since 1883 on the Montmartre hill, Steinlen quickly became acquainted with the artistic personalities who gravitated there. He entered into a relationship with Adolphe Willette, and Antonio de La Gandara with whom he frequented the Chat noir, the cabaret run by Rodolphe Salis, from 1884, becoming in particular the friend of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He naturally knew Aristide Bruant there. He also frequents the Au Tambourin café-restaurant at 62, boulevard de Clichy.
He initially exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1893, then regularly at the Salon des Humistes.
Opponent of injustice, compassionate towards the underprivileged, who were then not lacking in Montmartre, he depicts scenes from the street, factories, mines, depicting unfortunate people of all kinds, beggars, workers in poverty, ragged kids and prostitutes. These characters seem more often crushed by their sad condition than revolted. He is also the specialist in cats, which he draws without tiring, in all their fantasy, playful, asleep or angry. He also draws female nudes.
Steinlen prefers drawing and pastels to depict daily street life and its small jobs. The realism of his drawings inspired certain works of Jean Peské, or the beginnings of Pablo Picasso. He also developed an engraved work, taking up the same themes as his drawings, or mixing politics, as in the lithographs with which he illustrated the misfortunes of Belgium and Serbia in 1914-1918. But it is above all his posters which, like that of the Black Cat Tour, are at the origin of his popularity. He also practices sculpture on the theme of cats (sitting Angora cat). He also illustrated literary works, such as the 1903 reworking of the Soliloquies of the Poor by Jehan Rictus, and collaborated with various humorous journals such as Gil Blas illustrated, L'Assiette au Beurre (from no. 1), Le Rire and Les Hommes d today, then Les Humoristes, which he founded in 1911 with Jean-Louis Forain and Charles Léandre.
Steinlen is buried in the Saint-Vincent cemetery in Paris.
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The iconographic description is as follows: Advertising, Theater, Café-concert, Music hall, Singer, The singers Mothu and Frédéric Doria (1841-1900) in a nocturnal scene: in the light of a street lamp a bourgeois lights the cigarette of ' a man of the people
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, born in Lausanne on November 20, 1859 and died in Paris (18th arrondissement) on December 13, 19231, is a Swiss anarchist artist, painter, engraver, illustrator, poster designer and sculptor, naturalized French in 1901.
Living since 1883 on the Montmartre hill, Steinlen quickly became acquainted with the artistic personalities who gravitated there. He entered into a relationship with Adolphe Willette, and Antonio de La Gandara with whom he frequented the Chat noir, the cabaret run by Rodolphe Salis, from 1884, becoming in particular the friend of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He naturally knew Aristide Bruant there. He also frequents the Au Tambourin café-restaurant at 62, boulevard de Clichy.
He initially exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1893, then regularly at the Salon des Humistes.
Opponent of injustice, compassionate towards the underprivileged, who were then not lacking in Montmartre, he depicts scenes from the street, factories, mines, depicting unfortunate people of all kinds, beggars, workers in poverty, ragged kids and prostitutes. These characters seem more often crushed by their sad condition than revolted. He is also the specialist in cats, which he draws without tiring, in all their fantasy, playful, asleep or angry. He also draws female nudes.
Steinlen prefers drawing and pastels to depict daily street life and its small jobs. The realism of his drawings inspired certain works of Jean Peské, or the beginnings of Pablo Picasso. He also developed an engraved work, taking up the same themes as his drawings, or mixing politics, as in the lithographs with which he illustrated the misfortunes of Belgium and Serbia in 1914-1918. But it is above all his posters which, like that of the Black Cat Tour, are at the origin of his popularity. He also practices sculpture on the theme of cats (sitting Angora cat). He also illustrated literary works, such as the 1903 reworking of the Soliloquies of the Poor by Jehan Rictus, and collaborated with various humorous journals such as Gil Blas illustrated, L'Assiette au Beurre (from no. 1), Le Rire and Les Hommes d today, then Les Humoristes, which he founded in 1911 with Jean-Louis Forain and Charles Léandre.
Steinlen is buried in the Saint-Vincent cemetery in Paris.