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Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, known as A.M.Cassandre was born in Kharkov (Russian Empire until 1917), Ukraine, on January 24, 1901.

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Cassandre, pseudonym of Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron (24 January – 17 June ), was a French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.

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Adolphe Jean Marie Cassandre Biography.

Jean Adolphe Mouron was born in Ukraine in He studied painting at the Écoles des Beaux Arts in Paris, but at the age of 22, he turned to designing posters.

His parents were French. After a childhood spent shuttling back and forth between Russia and France, he settled in Paris with his family in 1915 and completed his schooling there. ln 1918, 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 1921; 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 1922 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 1928) with the name Mouron.

 

In 1923, Cassandre completed the first work charact