A m cassandre biography of abraham

Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, known as dre was born in Kharkov (Russian Empire until ), Ukraine, on January 24, His parents were French. After a childhood spent shuttling back and forth between Russia and France, he settled in Paris with his family in and completed his schooling there.

ln , after attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts very briefly, he enrolled in Lucien Simon's independent studio and later at the Académie Julian.

 

Soon obliged to earn his own living, Mouron designed several posters, possibly as early as ; they were done in a caricatural style which was probably derived from the German School.

Almost all of these early works have been lost. ln he moved to his first studio in Paris, on the Rue du Moulin-Vert in Montparnasse. He decided to sign his advertising designs with the pseudonym Cassandre, which was sometimes combined (up to ) with the name Mouron.

 

In , Cassandre completed the first work characterized by his synthetic style, "Au Bucher