What would a contemporary Toulouse-Lautrec have portrayed in Stockholm today?
A group of students from Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design – have been invited to contribute their personal answers to this question in the form of their own works of art. These works will be shown in the ground-floor gallery, displayed under the name “To use Lautrec”. A great deal of space is devoted to Toulouse-Lautrec in his capacity as a designer of posters. The emergent entertainment industry of the late 19th century needed marketing and the greater part of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters were made to advertise. In his posters the artist developed a medium of expression using simple lines and bold colors; an artistic language that points to the future. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s life describes an unusual social progress from the aristocracy to the darker side of society. He was born into a notably aristocratic family in southern France. It has been claimed that his poor health was the result of inbreeding. In his teens he broke his legs so severely that they st
