Dunki, Louis

(5/5/1856 Geneva - 1915)(Switzerland / France)

   Painter and illustrator. Attended the Geneva Kunstschulen and was a pupil of B. Menn for painting and E. Mayor for enameling, G. Roux for illustration drawing. Traveled to Paris to specialize in book illustration, where he worked on novels by some of the most important writers of his time. He also produced military, history, and orientalist paintings.

   Reproductions: Illustration to French edition of Aretino; Bilder-Lexikon vol. 3: p. 71.

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 4: p. 1348; ThB X 1914: p. 145.