Luciano achille mauzan biography
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Achille Luciano (Lucien) MAUZAN
Illustrator, painter, and sculptor, Achille Lucien Mauzan is one of the major poster artists of the Art Deco period.
Born in France, he moved to Italy in 1905 after studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. He spent his life between Italy, Argentina and France.
He began his career in the Italian film industry, creating up to three posters a week! He produced more than 1,500 movie posters, including a famous one in France for Louis Feuillade's serial "Les Vampires, Les yeux qui fascinent" in 1916.
In 1912, he began working for Ricordi in Milan, then decided to found his own publishing house with Morzenti: the Mauzan-Morzenti Agency. His posters for famous brands such as Poncio Lupacchioli liqueur (1922) or Moretti raincoats (1921) highlight the quality of the products with humour and playfulness.
In 1927, he moved to Buenos Aires where he created the "Mauzan Posters" and designed his most important works. He returned to France in 1933 and worked f
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Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883 Gap, Hautes-Alpes - 1952 Gap) was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted.
After a period of study in the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, Mauzan divided his life between Milan, Paris and Buenos Aires. Between the years 1920 and 1940, the period between the wars, he used forms and materials under the influence of the avant-garde cubists. He was also an illustrator of posters and postcards.
During his career as a poster printer and designer, Mauzan designed over 2,000 posters, using a style marked by humour and brilliant colours for advertisement and events and over 1,000 postcard images. He made several important posters for the Italian film industry in Turin, and then went to work at Ricordi music publishing from 1912 to 1917. Later, from 1919 to 1923 he works in the Magical press (Giovanni Ma
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After studying painting at the Lyon Academy, Mauzan moved to Italy in 1905 where he began a career as an illustrator. Four years later he was formgivning posters for the bio industry in Turin. Ricordi picked him up in 1912 and then he moved on to Magagnoli’s Magical press in 1919. By the 1920’s his style had been greatly influenced bygd Cubism and Art Deco. The success of his poster designs allowed him to set up his own publishing house in 1924, the Mauzan-Morzonty Agency in Milan. With this success behind him he moved to Argentina in 1926 to establish Affiches Mauzan, a second publishing house in Buenos Aires. Four years later he expanded his business bygd establishing a new poster department for the universum advertising agency. He returned to Italy in 1932 to see his dying wife, and then moved to Paris the following year. Before returning exclusively to painting in 1939, Mauzan had designed over 2,000 posters, many of which were reproduced on at least 1,000 pos