Illustrator and costume designer
Umberto Brunelleschi
Italian artist in Paris who drew masks, harlequins, fashion plates and stage costumes.
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The life
1879-1949Born Montemurlo, Tuscany, Italy
Umberto Brunelleschi was born in Montemurlo, near Prato, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900. He drew caricatures for Le Rire, sometimes as Aroun-al-Rascid, and fashion plates for the Journal des Dames et des Modes and the Gazette du Bon Ton. After serving in the Italian army in the First World War he returned to Paris, where he was art director of the magazine La Guirlande (1919-1920). In the 1920s and 1930s he designed sets and costumes for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Paris and opera houses including La Scala, and he illustrated books such as Perrault's fairy tales and Voltaire's Candide. He died in Paris in 1949. Picturepops cards use his drawings of about 1919-1920.