Édouard Elzingre (1880–1966) was a Swiss painter, poster artist and illustrator. He produced posters and illustrations for the Atar printing house in Geneva in 1906. In 1907, he settled permanently in Geneva and illustrated children’s books. In 1910, he worked as a press cartoonist for the Messager boiteux in Vevey and later the Tribune de Genève. In 1914, he produced the official postcards for the festival celebrating the centenary of Geneva’s entry into the Swiss Confederation.
Elzingre became very well known for the illustrations he produced for the book La nuit de l’Escalade by Alexandre Guillot (1915). His original watercolors were exhibited in 1915 at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva and this historical imagery would leave a lasting mark on the imagination of the people of Geneva.
In 1920, Elzingre returned to Paris with his family. There he produced illustrations for children’s literature, the circus world and the Fratellini, which he published in Histoire de trois clowns des Fratellini (1923). In 1924, the family returned to Geneva and he resumed his activities as an illustrator and poster artist.
Here below is a collection of vintage posters that illustrated by Édouard Elzingre from between the 1910s and 1930s.
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