Privat-Livemont Prints
1861–1936 · Belgian · Art Nouveau
Wall art by Privat-Livemont, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
9 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Privat-Livemont
Henri Privat-Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, on the edge of Brussels, in October 1861, studied at the local academy and went to Paris at eighteen on a scholarship, where he worked for six years in the studios of the decorators Lemaire and Lavastre, painting scenery for the Opéra and the Comédie-Française and taking part in the decoration of the Hôtel de Ville. He returned to Schaerbeek in 1889, painted murals, and from 1890 made the posters for which he is remembered: Absinthe Robette of 1896, with its raised glass and halo of green smoke, Bitter Oriental, the Cabourg bather rising out of a curling wave, the Rajah coffee and tea posters, the Cercle Artistique de Schaerbeek. His style, with its gilded outlines, halos and stylised plants, was close enough to Mucha's for the two to be confused, but he kept a Belgian clarity of colour. He designed sgraffito façades for houses in Schaerbeek and taught at its academy. He died in Schaerbeek in January 1936.