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Louis Moreau
Louis Moreau (1883 — 1958 March 9) was an artist, engraver, libertarian & militant pacifist
Trained as a lithographer, in 1900 he settles in Paris to practice his trade & develops a passion for drawing, then painting & engraving on wood.
Moreau began contributing to Jean Graveʼs "Temps Nouveaux." Mobilized during World War I, he nevertheless contributed to Pierre Chardonʼs clandestine newspaper "Semeur" (1916).
Between the two disastrous World Wars, his "Femme libérée" illustrates "l'Idée Libre," the review of Lorulot, & he contributed wood engravings to E. Armandʼs "Néo-Naturien" & "l'En Dehors", etc.
With Germain Delatouche, like him also an engraver & libertarian, and other artists, they form, in 1924, the group "Les Partisans."
Portraits of famous anarchists, antimilitarist illustrations, bucolic or naturist landscapes, & various wood engravings by Moreau decorate many books & libertarian journals: "Les Humbles," "La Revue Anarchiste," "l'Almanach de la paix" (1934), "l'Unique" (until 1956), & numerous titles from Joseph Ishillʼs Oriole Press, etc.
« Rejected stardom » An artist of major talent, Moreau rejected stardom, making complete fun of any official recognition. His artist friend Manuel Devaldès a biography of him in 1935.
Oriole Press Colophon is from a woodcut by LOUIS MOREAU
The artist whose work is most often associated with the Oriole Press is Louis Moreau (1883-?), the French wood-engraver. It was Moreau who designed Ishillʼs printerʼs mark, & he contributed a large number of woodcuts for Ishillʼs publications.
