About Georges Zipélius
Lived 1808 – 1890 (aged 81–82). Georges Zipélius was a French illustrator.
Georges Zipélius (1808–1890) was a French illustrator who designed wallpaper. His work is preserved in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Deutsches Tapetenmuseum. The wallpaper El Dorado, in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, was co-designed by Zipélius with Eugène Ehrmann and Joseph Fuchs; it took them two years to design it; it is still in print today. Zipélius was from Mulhouse and attended the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts.
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Who was Georges Zipélius?
illustrator (1808–1890)
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Georges Zipélius was born in 1808.
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Georges Zipélius died in 1890.
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Georges Zipélius was an illustrator.
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Georges Zipélius was French.
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