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Milan, Ricordi, [1893]. In 4th, 285 x 188 mm. Album in dove gray half canvas and cardboard containing 45 plates representing fashion plates (41) and various props, as well as footwear (4), watercolor engravings on cardboard, name of the character on the reverse, detailed tailoring instructions , the shoemaker, the hairdresser etc., slight browning.
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Adolf Hohenstein (1854-1928) was a cosmopolitan artist, born in Tsar Russia, in St. Petersburg, to German parents, and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, before moving in 1879 to Milan, a city to which he remained attached throughout his life.A leading exponent of Art Nouveau, Adolf Hohenstein was a painter, designer, advertiser, illustrator, set designer and costume designer; in the theatrical field, he established relationships above all with Giacomo Puccini, creating sketches, sketches and prop tables for operas such as Le Villi, Edgar, Manon Lescaut, Tosca. The collaboration with Giulio Ricordi began in 1889, shortly after becoming the first artistic director of Casa Ricordi, with responsibility for both the graphic and theatrical sections. He designed sets and costumes for Falstaffand for most of Puccini's operas. He also created advertising posters for La Bohème, Tosca, Campari, Buitoni, Corriere della Sera, as well as postcards and covers of scores and librettos. He had among his students Leopoldo Metlicovitz and Marcello Dudovich, both employees of Casa Ricordi.
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