Adolfo Hohenstein Prints
1854–1928 · German-Italian · Stile Liberty
Wall art by Adolfo Hohenstein, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
5 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Adolfo Hohenstein
Adolfo Hohenstein was born in Saint Petersburg in March 1854 to German parents, studied in Vienna and worked as a decorator in India before settling in Milan in 1879, where he painted scenery for La Scala. In 1889 the music publisher Giulio Ricordi made him artistic director of the firm's printing works, Officine Grafiche Ricordi, and for the next twenty years he designed the posters, score covers, sets and costumes for the operas Ricordi published: Puccini's La Bohème in 1896, for which he also designed the first production, Tosca in 1899, Madama Butterfly in 1904, Mascagni's Iris in 1898. His posters brought the flowing line and flat colour of the Paris poster to Italy, and the younger designers he hired and trained at Ricordi, Metlicovitz, Dudovich and Mataloni, made the firm the centre of the Italian Stile Liberty. He left Ricordi in 1906, moved to Germany and died at Bonn in April 1928.