Vintage Posters: Cappiello
LEONETTO CAPPIELLO
1875 - 1942 - Leonetto Cappiello was born in Livorno
1892 - Having received no training, he exhibited for the first time a painting at the Musée municipal in Florence.
1896 - First album of caricatures "Lanterna Magica".
1898 - Arrival in Paris. First caricatures in "Le Rire"
1899 - "Nos Actrices", album of character portraits published by La Revue Blanche. First poster for the newspaper Frou-Frou.
1900 - He signed his first contract by the printer and publisher of posters P. Vercasson. Beginning of his career of poster designer.
1901-1914 - He designed several hundred posters, such as Chocolate Klaus in 1903,which represented a complete change in poster-designing. He carried on with his activity of an artistic and society life’s caricaturist.
1912 - He designed some posters intended to be displayed on the walls of the tearooms, reading rooms and smoking rooms in the Galeries Lafayette.
1915-1918 - He spent the war time in Italy as an interpreter.
1919 - Contract with the publisher Devambez.
1923 - Exhibition of his whole works by Devambez. He progressively adapted his style to the changes in poster art, which underwent the great influence of Cassandre and the musketeers. His ideas, which have already been developed by 1907 in an article of "La Publicité Moderne", began gaining ground and matching up with those of the young graphic designers. He took part in many international exhibitions.
1930 - French naturalization. Posters for O Cap and the Cuir q, which represented a great step forward. His artistic evolution took shape.
1935 - Fresco work for the bar of the Restaurant Dupont, boulevard Barbès.
1937 - Vice-president of the category Publicity at the Exhibition. He painted "La Force motrice", step for the Pavillon de la Publicité.
1941 - Gravely ill, he retired in Grasse.
1942 - He died in Cannes
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