Toulouse-Lautrec

by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Thomson, Claire Freches-Thory, et al.

Book Overview

The world of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was inhabited by denizens of the street and night life of fin-de-siecle Paris - with its dance halls, bars, brothels and circuses. Portraying this world in his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3829029330
• ISBN13: 9783829029339
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Konemann
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

a crippled genius

Toulouse-Lautrec is my favorite artist. He has always fascinated me the most, both his life and his work. He had one or two accidents as a child where his legs were broken and they stopped growing. As a result, he became a dwarf. This must have created a deep-seated inferiority complex in him that caused him, consciously or unconsciously, to draw unflattering caricatures of his contemporaries. But the drawing style was completely original and his own. He soon became famous for his lithographs or posters depicting entertainers at the Moulin Rouge, etc. He was highly productive but always a heavy drinker and inexhaustible party animal. In fact, it was his frequenting of brothels and romantic friendships with prostitutes that eventually did him in. He caught syphilis, a deadly 19th century venereal disease for which there was no cure in those days. However, he left behind some of the most unique Impressionist paintings of Parisian night-life ever painted. David Rehakauthor of "Love and Madness"