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Place of Birth: Gap, Provence-Alpes-CĂ´te d'Azur, France
About Achille Mauzan
- Achille Lucien Mauzan (1883, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes – 1952, in 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 at 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 humor and brilliant colors 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 Magagnoli).
- In 1924 in Milan he establishes with Morzenti his own publishing house, the Mauzan-Morzenti Agency.
- In 1926 he travels to Argentina and sets up the “Affiches Mauzan” (Mauzan Posters) publishing house where many of his greatest works were created and where he worked until 1932.
- Within those years, Gino Boccasile, one of his students in Milan, travels to Argentina at his insistence and sets up studio.
- Mauzan is also noted for designing several war posters including an adaptation of the famous Lord Kitchener poster.
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