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Theophile Steinlen was born in 1859 in Switzerland and arrived in Paris in
1882, he soon became a vital part of the Montmartre's artistic bohemia.
His first works (lithographs) were for the popular cabaretier Aristide
Bruant in 1884, which also accompanied a Bruant song. Between 1882 & 1913
Steinlen became artistic contributor and adviser to over thirty magazines,
some of which he founded and directed. Some of his works emphasized
particular aspects of his art more strongly such as social justice, somber
studies of harrowed humanity in the world. In 1893, Steinlen exhibited his
landscapes, nude portraits and paintings of animals and flowers at the
Salon des Independents. Throughout his life Steinlen remained faithful to
the subjects that affected him most deeply, namely life on the popular
streets of Montmartre and Paris, his lithographs evoking the hardest
aspects of life - the streets, factories and building sites reminding us
of hunger, strikes, war and love. He died in 1923.
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