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.