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Marcel Mültzer
A French artist and writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, remembered both for vivid stage designs and for a wartime story set among ordinary people during World War I. His surviving work offers a glimpse of a creative life that moved between theater, visual art, and literature.
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Avec les Poilus: Maman la Soupe et son chat Ratu
by Marcel Mültzer
About the author
Born in Angers on June 24, 1866, and died in Marly-le-Roi on October 15, 1937, Marcel Mültzer was a French painter, decorator, poster artist, and costume designer. Library and museum records identify him as an author as well, showing a career that crossed easily between the visual arts and the written word.
Mültzer is especially associated with theater and costume design. Art and catalog records connect him with costume maquettes for productions such as Louise, Werther, and La Belle aux bois dormant, suggesting a strong hand for character, atmosphere, and stage presence.
As a writer, he is known for Avec les Poilus: Maman la Soupe et son chat Ratu, published in 1918. That book places human warmth at the center of wartime life, and it helps preserve Mültzer not only as a designer of appearances, but also as a storyteller interested in the people living through history.