Artist lautrec biography
Artist lautrec biography summary.
Artist lautrec biography
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec &#; The Artist of Parisian Nightlife
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By Shira Wolfe
&#;I paint things as they are. I don&#;t comment.&#;
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Who is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a 19th-century French painter, illustrator and poster artist, known for his atmospheric depiction of the Parisian underworld.
Besides his work as an artist, his height (only cm), and scandalous behaviour in society brought him notoriety.
He is one of the most famous post-impressionist painters of the era, whose style was also influenced by Art Nouveau, and the topics he focused on centred around the bohemian life on the streets, in brothels, theatres and bars in Paris.
Although he died young and his whole career lasted less than 20 years, he managed to produce a great number of for the time modern, provocative and decadent images that give us a real picture of what Parisian nightlife was like at the end of the 19th centur