Henri Privat-Livemont

Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T. Privat-Livemont.

Life Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on 9 October 1861, to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard. From the age of 13 he studied drawing at the academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Louis Hendrickx. He graduated at the top of his class in 1883 and was awarded a government bursary to spend time in Paris, where he remained 1883–1889, working and studying in the studios of Lemaire (for the interior decoration of the Hôtel de Ville), and of Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting stage sets for the Opéra Garnier and the Comédie Française). but became better known for his posters in Art Nouveau style, most famously that for the Brussels International Exposition (1897). Two of his posters, for Absinthe Robette and the Casino de Cabourg, were published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. Between 1900 and 1921 he painted a number of murals for public buildings, mostly in and around Brussels but including the provincial government house for Limburg in Hasselt. During the First World War he produced a series of caricatures of German occupiers.