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Death of Léo Kouper, illustrator and poster artist for Charlie Chaplin, at 94

2021-02-09T18:40:08.399Z


DISAPPEARANCE - We owe him the biggest posters of Charlot's films. Despite his great age, the designer continued to work and was currently preparing the cover for Vladimir Cosma's next album. He passed away, in his sleep, at his Parisian home.


Léo Kouper, famous illustrator who has made several posters of Charlie Chaplin films, died at the age of 94, Monday at his Paris home, his daughter Corinne Kouper told AFP.

Awarded in 1974 by the Cannes Film Festival for the poster of the film

Emmanuelle

by Just Jaeckin, Léo Kouper signed for Chaplin the posters of The

Dictator

,

Modern Times

,

The Gold Rush

,

City Lights

and

Kid

.

Disciple of the famous poster artist Hervé Morvan, met in 1945, he also distinguished himself for advertising, Léo Kouper also produced posters for several Parisian theaters.

In 2015, he created a drawing on the

Charlie Hebdo

attack

: a portrait of Chaplin whose famous hat, transformed into a target, is riddled with bullets.

The daily Liberation published it in a special issue.

Genius of evocation, he knew how to express so many things with few means, as in the poster for

Miraculé

, the film by Jean-Pierre Mocky.

For Jean-Pierre Mocky, Léo Kouper will also design the posters for the

Insomniacs

, the

Mentor

,

À votre bon coeur

and the

Yellow Fox.

Leo Kouper

A few days before his death,

"in his sleep"

, Léo Kouper was still working on the illustration of a forthcoming album by Vladimir Cosma.

Source: lefigaro

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