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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Chiozza e Turchi, fabricants de savons Adolfo Hohenstein (Saint Petersburg, 18 March 1854 – Bonn, 12 April 1928) was a German painter, advertiser, illustrator, set designer and costume designer. He's considered the father of the Italian poster art and an exponent of the Stile Liberty, the Italian Art Nouveau. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Giovanni Mario Mataloni, Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich, he's considered one of the most important Italian poster designers.
Adolfo Hohenstein was born in the town of Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, to German parents, Julius and Laura Irack. His father was a forest engineer, whose career prompted him to travel extensively. Julius, forest engineer. Adolf moves to Vienna where he grows up and completes his studies. His travels take him to India, where he decorates the houses of the local nobility. The Italian experience In 1879, he settles down in Milan, Italy. He becomes a set and costume designer for La Scala and other theatres. There he meets the musical publisher Giulio Ricordi, and in 1889 begins to work for the Ricordi Graphical Workshops, where he shortly becomes the artistic director in charge of the graphical part. He'll create the posters for La Bohème and Tosca, as well as publicity for Campari, Buitoni and Corriere della Sera, numerous postcards, covers for scores and booklets. His work will continue to cover the theatrical dimension: scenarios and wardrobes for several works, among them Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (1893) and a major part of the works of Giacomo Puccini, from the sketches of the Villas to posters of Madama Butterfly (1904). At Ricordi's he has as colleague Giovanni Mario Mataloni and as students Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich. Return to Germany In the first years of the 1900s, after marrying Katharina Plaskuda, a widow, he travels more and more frequently between Italy and Germany till 1906, year in which, after winning the competition for the graphical symbol and the poster for the "Esposizione per il Traforo del Sempione", he leaves Milan for Bonn and Düsseldorf definitively. He will settle in Bonn in 1918. The German years see him engaged mostly as a painter and involved in the decoration of numerous buildings, among them one of first in constructed reinforced concrete in Renania (1911). Adolfo Hohenstein died in Bonn 12 April 1928. Main poster works 1898 - Corriere della Sera
Giacomo Puccini, Le Villi, Milan, Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 2 original sketches Giacomo Puccini, Edgar, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 21 April 1889 54 original costumes Richard Wagner, Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 December 1889 62 original costumes Alfredo Catalani, Loreley, Torino, Teatro Regio, 16 February 1890 42 original costumes Alfredo Catalani, La Wally, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 20 January 1892 4 original sketches Alberto Franchetti, Cristoforo Colombo, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 January 1892 90 figurini originali Niccolò van Westerhout, Cimbelino, Rome, Teatro Argentina, 7 April 1892 37 original costumes Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut, Torino, Teatro Regio, 1893 57 original costumes Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 9 February 1893 5 original sketches Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème, Torino, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896 3 original sketches Pietro Mascagni, Iris, Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 22 November 1898 3 original sketches Giacomo Puccini, Tosca, Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900 3 original sketches Alberto Franchetti, Germania, Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 1 March 1902 4 original sketches Franco Alfano, Risurrezione, Torino, Teatro Regio, 1904 2 set props
1894 - Esposizioni Riunite, Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Notes and references AAVV. Dizionario Enciclopedico Bolaffi dei Pittori e degli Incisori Italiani - dall'XI al XX secolo (volume VI). Giulio Bolaffi Editore, Torino, 1974.
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