Jean d’ylen: From Jewellery Making to poster design
Jean D’Ylen (1866-1938) was one of the most renowned poster artists in France in the 1920s and early 1930s. Very much influenced by Cappiello, He created more than 100 posters, most of them for Vercasson.
Jean d’Ylen was born Jean Paul Beguin. He changed his name to the less ordinary Jean d’Ylen in 1912 when he designed his first poster. It was for Erasmic soap. At that time he was still working as a jewellery designer. It was only seven years later, in 1919, that he abandoned the jewellery business for good to work, like Cappiello before him, for the advertising agency Vercasson and become a full-time poster artist.
