Georges de Feure (real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, 6 September 1868 – 26 November 1943) was a French painter,
theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the
symbolism
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and
Art Nouveau
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styles.
De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent
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architect, and his mother was
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. De Feure had two sons, Jean Corneille and Pierre Louis, in the early 1890s with his mistress Pauline Domec and a daughter with his first wife Marguerite Guibert (married 7 July 1897).
In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the
Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Chéret in his posters for the café concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designer of
Siegfried Bing
Samuel Siegfried Bing (26 February 1838 – 6 September 1905), who usually gave his name as S. Bing (not to be confused with his brother, Samuel Otto Bing, 1850–1905), was a German-French art dealer who lived in Paris as an adult, and who ...
for L'Art Nouveau.
He showed work in the
Exposition Universelle de Paris exhibition in 1900. He designed furniture, worked for newspapers, created theater designs for
Le Chat Noir
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cabaret
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and posters. In August 1901, de Feure was nominated
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
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for his contribution to the decorative arts. He died in poverty at the age of 75 years in Paris.
Gallery
File:Jane Derval poster de Feure.png, ''Jane Derval Folies-Bergère'' (Paris, 1904)
File:Lithographies originales poster de Feure.png, circa 1898
File:Le Journal des ventes Poster de Feure.png, circa 1899
File:Georges de Feure - Sans titre.jpg, circa 1900
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche
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Maîtres de l'affiche V 1 - Pl 10 - De Feure.jpg, Pl 10
Maîtres de l'affiche V 3 - Pl 130 - Georges de Feure.jpg, Pl 130
Maîtres de l'affiche V 4 - Pl 146 - Georges de Feure.jpg, Pl 146
Maîtres de l'affiche vol 5 - Pl 199 - Georges de Feure.jpg, Pl 199
* George de Feure: 1868–1928 / Ian Millman.- Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; Zwolle: Wanders
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* Ian Millman ''Georges de Feure : maître du symbolisme et de l'Art nouveau'', A.C.R. Edition internationale, Paris-Courbevoie 1992