Georges De Feure ( 1868 - 1943)

(real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters) was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was a successful Dutch architect. In 1886, de Feure was one of the eleven students admitted at the Rijkscademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which he did however leave very quickly for Paris since he felt that formal academic training had nothing to offer him. Being of very independent nature, de Feure never again took up formal artistic studies, and forged his own independent path. He was however influenced by Jules Cheret in his posters for the cafe concert but most likely was never his pupil and became the key designer of Siegfried Bing for L’Art Nouveau. He exhibited in the Exposition Universelle de Paris exhibition in 1900. He designed furniture, worked for newspapers, created theater designs for Le Chat Noir cabaret and posters.