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Leopoldo Metlicovitz (17 July 1868 – 19 October 1944) was an
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,
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and poster designer. Together with
Leonetto Cappiello Leonetto Cappiello (9 April 1875 – 2 February 1942) was an Italian and French poster art designer and painter, who mainly lived and worked in Paris.
, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and
Marcello Dudovich Marcello Dudovich (21 March 1878 – 31 March 1962) was an Italian painter, illustrator, and poster designer. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolfo Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Leopoldo Metlicovitz he is considered one of the ...
, he is considered one of the fathers of modern Italian
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art.


Biography

Son of a merchant of Dalmatian origins (the family name was originally ''Metlicovich''), he began working in the family business at a very young age and at fourteen years old he entered as an apprentice in a printing house in
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, where he learned the technique of
lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...
. Here he is noticed by
Giulio Ricordi Giulio Ricordi (19 December 1840 – 6 June 1912) was an Italian editor and musician who joined the family firm, the Casa Ricordi music publishing house, in 1863, then run by his father, Tito, the son of the company's founder Giovanni Ricordi. ...
, owner of the homonymous musical house and of the Officine Grafiche, who invites him to move to
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to complete his training. From 1888 to 1892 he collaborated with Tensi, a photographic products company, and in 1892 he joined
Ricordi Ricordi may refer to: People * Giovanni Ricordi (1785–1853), Italian violinist and publishing company founder *Giulio Ricordi (1840–1912), Italian publisher and musician Music *Casa Ricordi, an Italian music publishing company established i ...
as technical director. At first he practiced transposing the works of other famous poster artists such as Hohenstein and Mataloni onto lithographic stone, then his pictorial talent was increasingly appreciated and he began creating posters and illustrations for Ricordi's music editions. Many of the works of the most famous composers of the time are advertised on posters signed by Metlicovitz: from those of
Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini#Operas, his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he ...
such as ''
Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...
'' (1900), ''
Madama Butterfly ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story " Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Lu ...
'' (1904) and ''
Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...
'' (1926) to ''
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'' by
Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...
(1898), to ''
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'' by
Riccardo Zandonai Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian composer and conducting, conductor. Biography Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria-Hungary. As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he ...
(1911). At the end of the nineteenth century, the Grandi Magazzini Mele of
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entrusted Officine Ricordi with their own advertising campaign for their clothing, one of the first on a large scale, and the artifices of success were the posters created by Metlicovitz together with Aleardo Terzi, Dudovich, Cappiello and others. In 1906, on the occasion of the great
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in
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, Metlicovitz won the competition for the poster that symbolized the fair, dedicated to the
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, making a name for himself as a poster designer. There are dozens of magazine covers, scores and opera librettos published by Ricordi, which bear his signature including the magazines ''Music and Musicians'' (1902-1905) and ''Ars et Labor'' (1906-1912), his work as an illustrator also appears on '' La Lettura'' (1906-1907, 1909) monthly in ''
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''. Especially from the beginning of the twentieth century, the Officine Grafiche Ricordi began to sell various products that were the fruit of a merchandising ante-litteram, thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit of Giulio Ricordi, and many of them bore the signature of Leopoldo Metlicovitz, such as the Almanacco Verdiano of 1902 or the series of illustrated postcards on musical themes, such as those for the operas ''
La Bohème ''La bohème'' ( , ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '':wikt:quadro, quadri'', ''wikt:tableau, tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto b ...
'', ''Tosca'', ''Madama Butterfly'' or ''
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'' by
Alberto Franchetti Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer and racing driver, best known for the 1902 opera ''Germania''. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied ...
. Between 1907 and 1910 Metlicovitz, on behalf of Ricordi, went twice to
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; in the meantime he had married Elvira Lazzaroni, by whom he had two children: Roberto (1908-?) and Leopolda (1912–2008). In 1914 Metlicovitz is also one of the designers, together with
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, Luigi Caldanzano and
Adolfo De Carolis Adolfo de Carolis (6 January 1874 – 7 February 1928) was an Italian painter, xylographer, illustrator and photographer. He is generally associated with Art Nouveau (known as "Stile Liberty" in Italy), although many of his works could also be cl ...
, involved in the launch of the film ''
Cabiria ''Cabiria'' is a 1914 Italian Epic film, epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows the story o ...
'', a colossal of silent screenplay by Gabriele D'Annunzio, for which he will create four posters. He also designed the trademark that is still used today by Fratelli Branca Distillerie, the producers of
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, depicting an eagle with spread wings holding a bottle of the liqueur above a globe. After ending his collaboration with Casa Ricordi in 1938, he concentrated more and more on painting, preferring
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s and
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s and participating in the first editions of the Cremona Prize (1939-1940). On 19 October 1944 he died in his house in Ponte Lambro, where he had moved permanently in 1915.


Artistic activity


Posters


Theater and music

* 1898 -
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, opera by
Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...
* 1899 - The free colony, opera by
Pietro Floridia Pietro Floridia (5 May 1860 in Modica – 16 August 1932 in New York City) was an Italian composer of classical music. According to David Johnson (quoting the notes, by Luigi della Croce, to the Bongiovanni recording of Floridia's Symphony and ...
* 1900 -
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, opera by
Cesare Galeotti Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872, Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929, Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor, and concert pianist. He is best known for his opera ''Anton'' which he conducted at its highly lauded premiere at La Scala on 17 February 1900 ...
* 1900 -
Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...
, opera by
Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini#Operas, his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he ...
* 1901 -
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, opera by
Edoardo Mascheroni Edoardo Mascheroni (born Milan, Austrian Empire, 4 September 1852 – died Valganna, 4 March 1941) was an Italian composer and conductor. He is remembered for conducting the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's ''Falstaff''; he also composed two ...
* 1904 -
Madama Butterfly ''Madama Butterfly'' (; ''Madame Butterfly'') is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story " Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Lu ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini * 1905 - Amica, opera by Pietro Mascagni * 1905 -
Giovanni Gallurese Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...
, opera by
Italo Montemezzi Italo Montemezzi (August 4, 1875 – May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera '' L'amore dei tre re'' (''The Love of the Three Kings''), once part of the standard repertoire. It is now seldom performed. Biography ...
* 1907 - Comic and operetta company directed by
Giulio Marchetti Giulio Marchetti (9 June 1911 – 1 December 1993) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and presenter. Life and career Born in Barcelona, Marchetti was the grandson of the operetta actor and comedian Giulio and the son of the theatri ...
* 1907 - Hans the flute player, opera by
Louis Ganne Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Biography Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up ...
* 1908 - The cricket of the hearth, opera by
Riccardo Zandonai Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian composer and conducting, conductor. Biography Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria-Hungary. As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he ...
* 1908 - The dust of Pirlimpinpin, by
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* 1909 -
Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). Their decisio ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini, edition of Teatro alla Scala * 1910 - Dream of a waltz, by Oscar Straus * 1910 - Italian comic opera company Scognamiglio Caramba * 1911 - Phonotype. The tenor comm. G.Anselmi * 1911 -
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, opera of
Riccardo Zandonai Riccardo Zandonai (28 May 1883 – 5 June 1944) was an Italian composer and conducting, conductor. Biography Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria-Hungary. As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he ...
* 1911 - Quo Vadis...?, opera of J.Nougues * 1912 - Melenis, opera by Riccardo Zandonai * 1913 - Amore in maschera, opera by Yvan de Hartulary Darclée * 1916 - The blue spider, operetta by
Alberto Randegger Alberto Randegger (13 April 1832 – 18 December 1911) was an Italian-born composer, conductor and singing teacher, best known for promoting opera and new works of British music in England during the Victorian era and for his widely used textbook ...
* 1919 -
Gianni Schicchi () is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Puccin ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini, Italian premiere * 1919 -
Suor Angelica ''Suor Angelica'' (''Sister Angelica'') is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as ''Il trittico'' (''The Triptych''). It received its wor ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini, Italian premiere * 1919 -
Il tabarro ''Il tabarro'' (''The Cloak'') is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on 's play ''La houppelande''. It is the first of the trio of operas known as ''Il trittico''. The first performance was given ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini, Italian premiere * 1922 -
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, opera by Riccardo Zandonai * 1925 - Santa Cruz Company * 1926 -
Turandot ''Turandot'' ( ; see #Origin and pronunciation of the name, below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it ...
, opera by Giacomo Puccini * 1926 - Clara Weiss


Cinema

* 1911 -
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" - Milano Films * 1913 - Germany - Savoy Film Torino * 1913 - William Tell * 1914 - Cabiria * 1915 - Pagliacci, by Francesco Bertolini * 1915 - Zinga - Itala Film Torino * 1916 - The fire, by
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* 1916 -
Tigre reale ''Tigre reale'' ''(The royal tigress)'' is a 1916 silent film directed by Giovanni Pastrone under the name Piero Fosco, adapting the eponymous 1875 novel by Giovanni Verga. Plot Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian diplomat in Paris, falls in love during a ...
, by Giovanni Pastrone


Others

* 1896 ca. - La Sera * 1897 - Fleurs de Mousse de Sauzé Frères parfumeurs
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* 1897 - Distillerie Italiane Gas Alcohol Appliances - Milan * 1898 - E. & A. Mele & C. - Umbrellas of every kind - Rich assortments * 1899 - Liebig. Real meat extract * 1904 - Packages for men - Mele & C.- Naples * 1905 ca. - Bitter Shepherd Milan * 1906 - Flouvella de Sauzé Frères parfumeurs Paris * 1908 ca. - Packs and novelties for children maximum cheap. Mele & C. - Naples * 1908 - Superator. Alcohol gas stove * 1909 - Mode novelties. Maximum good market. Apples & C. - Naples * 1909 - Automobile Club di Milan - Inauguration of the new seat * 1909 - L'Ora - Corriere Politico Quotidiano della Sicilia * 1911 - Liane Fleurie Sauzé Frères * 1911 - Mele & C. Massimo buon mercato * 1911 ca. - Os vinhos do Porto de A. Ramos Pinto São uma tentação * 1912 ca. - Sangemini natural mineral water * 1912 ca. - Mavridès' Cigarette Cairo * 1913 -
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* 1913 - Turin Cirié Lanzo railway line * 1914 - Shoe factory of Varese.Sardi Trolli & C. concessionaires * 1920 - National Insurance Institute * 1920-30 - Sangemini natural mineral water * 1921 - The paradise of the Dolomites Hotel Misurina and Hotel Alpino * 1921 - Waterproofs Ettore Moretti Milan * 1923 - Bottega della gomma Milan * 1925 -
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* 1925 ca. - Pola Venezia Giulia * 1925 - Company of ferry-boats for England * 1926 - Antigelone Cagnola * 1927 - Milan Fede jams * 1933 - Ettore Moretti Milan waterproof tires * 1933 - Villa Margherita
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Lido * 1937 - Tripoli Lottery * n.d. - Corriere delle Signore - F. Treves Editori Milan * n.a. - Chile soda nitrate - nitrogenous fertilizer * n.a. - Fides Italian
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* n.a. - Chianti Melini * n.a. - Buitoni milk flour


Events

* 1905 - Exhibition of the Bicycle and Automobile Milan * 1906 - Inauguration of Sempione - International Exhibition - Milan * 1907 - Launching of the royal ship "Roma" at
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* 1911 - International exhibition of industry and work -
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* 1911 - Varese Horse Fair, April 17-18-19 * 1913 -
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centenary celebrations 1813-1913, Verdi's centenary * 1914 - Greek Theater of Syracuse -
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of
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* 1921 - San Pellegrino Grand Season May–October * 1923 -
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Grandes Veglioni Carnaval -
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* 1925 - Erba Incino Equestrian Competition, 10-11-12 October


Pictorial works

* Portrait of
Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was ''Mefistofele''. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretto, libretti ar ...
, oil on canvas * Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, oil on canvas * Tosca, 6 watercolors for series of postcards * Madama Butterfly, 12 watercolors for series of postcards * Germany, 10 watercolors for series of postcards * Verdi in Sant'Agata, 7 watercolors for series of postcards * Aida, watercolor for Almanacco Verdiano * Otello, watercolor for Almanac Verdiano


References


Bibliography

* Laura Mocci, METLICOVITZ, Leopoldo, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, LXXIV volume, Roma, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2010. URL consultato il 12 May 2013. * Giovanna Ginex, ''Metlicovitz, Dudovich: grandi cartellonisti triestini: manifesti della Raccolta Achille Bertarelli del Castello Sforzesco di Milano'', catalogo mostra, Ginevra-Milano 2001 * G. Mori, ''Le vacanze degli italiani attraverso i Manifesti Storici della Raccolta Bertarelli'', catalogo mostra, Cinisello Balsamo 2004


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''«Sempre avanti!»'' (1919)
- cartolina di propaganda a firma di Metlicovitz, e breve nota biografica. *
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