Léo Schnug [SEP] place of death
Léo Schnug
Léo Schnug (17 February 1878, Strasbourg - 15 December 1933, near Brumath) was an Alsatian painter and illustrator of German ancestry.
Biography.
When he was still very young, his father, a court clerk, was hospitalized for a mental illness. To survive, his mother rented out rooms in their house to performers from the municipal theater and the opera costumes they brought with them became a source of inspiration.
After a few years at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, ,
Patrick et Bénédicte Hamm, "Léo Schnug, 1878-1933 : ses cartes postales, ex-libris et affiches", Jérôme Do Bentzinger, Colmar, 1993.
- Nicolas Mengus, "Léo Schnug," in the "Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne", vol. 34, Fédération des sociétés d’histoire et d’archéologie d’Alsace, Strasbourg, 1999, p. 3515-3516
- Gilles Pudlowski, "Léo Schnug," in "Dictionnaire amoureux de l'Alsace", Plon, Paris, 2010, p. 625