Draner, actually Jules Joseph Georges Renard (12 November 1833 in Liège – 1926 in Paris), was a Belgianpainter, Illustrator and cartoonist. Draner, who began working as an illustrator for renowned newspapers in 1861 and resided in Paris, created late costumes for a variety of renowned theaters and opera houses.[1] He is also considered to be an early Belgian comics artist.[2]
Jules Renard was born in 1833 in Liège, the son of a printer and bookseller who printed in 1850 the Almanac of Mathieu Lansberg.[3] Later he formed his name "Draner" as an anagram of his surname Renard, a name that he used all his life in all his drawings,[1] although he was also known as "Paf".[4] After leaving school, he worked as secretary in the administration of the Société des Mines et de Zinc de la Vieille Fonderies-Montagne, an enterprise of the zinc industry in his home town.[3] As an autodidact, he began drawing and creating his first caricatures on motives that he found in the everyday life of Liège and soon began working with local newspapers. Between 1852 and 1861, he worked for the Brussels paper Uylenspiegel, founded by Félicien Rops.[3]
In 1861, he moved to Paris, where the Société des Mines et de Zinc de la Vieille Fonderies-Montagne had a branch.[3] In the beginning of his Parisian years, he primarily caricatured military life in his drawings; between 1861 and 1864, he had already produced 136 colored lithographs on this topic, portraying himself as a military of different nationality in an ironic way.[3] He published these images in albums such as Types militaires de toutes les nations, Nouvelle vie militaire, and Le colonel Ramollot. From 1866, he worked as an illustrator for the satirical magazine Le Charivari,[5] where, in 1879, he succeeded Amédée de Noé, known as "Cham" (1818-1879),[4] as a regular illustrator. In addition, his amusing drawings appeared in magazines such as La Caricature,[6]L'Eclipse, Le Monde Classique, Paris-Comique, L'Illustration, Le Monde Illustré, Le journal amusant[5] and Petit Journal.[3]
^ abcdefghUniversité de Liège. "DRANER, Jules RENARD dit (Liège, 1833 - Paris, 1926)". Draner - Types militaires. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
^ abChilds, Elizabeth C. (2004). Daumier and exoticism: satirizing the French and the foreign. Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 26–27. ISBN 0-8204-6945-9.
^ abAntoine Masson, Kevin O'Connor (2007). Representations of justice. Peter Lang. p. 46. ISBN 978-90-5201-349-7.
^Hamerton, Philip Gilbert (1892). The present state of the fine arts in France. University of Michigan Library. p. 55. OCLC 1351898.
Attribution
This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article of the French Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the History section.
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Biografie of Draner at the University of Liège website