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Leopoldo Metlicovitz (Triest, 1868 – 1944)
He was a commercial artist, lithographer, painter, and graphic artist. He did many opera designs and many of his creations found their way to posters, postcards, and other paper media.

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http://rubell.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/my-italian-opera-postcards/


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LEOPOLDO METLICOVITZ (1868-1944)

One of Italy's most prolific posterists, Metlicovitz was born in the Adriatic port city of Trieste, and appears to have become a painter and portraitist without any formal training. In 1891, he showed up in Milan at Ricordi's print shop as a lithography trainee, proving to be such a quick study he was promoted to technical director within a year. Though Metlicovitz was more than capable of adjusting his style to the needs of his clientele, his best works are highlighted by a fever-pitch sense of fantasia, a palpable sense of sensual mythology being unleashed on pedestrian paper. Case in point this promotion for a Milanese distributor of of petroleum burning heating elements, who conjures forth a sylphic embrace to promote the "economy of oil." Is such a beautiful indulgence warranted for lamps and heaters? The point is absolutely moot, as we are simply fortunate enough to have had it occur.



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