biography
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Loutherbourg, Philip James de
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pronunciation:
[lootherboorg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1740–1812)
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| biography:
| Stage designer and illustrator, born in Fulda, C Germany. He studied at Strasbourg, and after working in Paris was hired by Garrick as artistic adviser at the Drury Lane theatre, London (1771–81). His innovations in scene design and particularly in stage lighting laid the foundations for the development of pictorial illusion and the picture-frame concept in stagecraft. He abandoned theatre in 1781 to develop and exhibit his Eidophusikon, a model stage displaying panoramic transformations through the use of transparencies and coloured plates. |
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