![]() These prints contained many floral forms and organically shaped curves, which would all become key elements of Art Nouveau. ![]() If you would like to contribute an image, please contact me. I am constantly updating these galleries and adding new artists. ![]() As English designer and businessman William Morris explained, the main goals were “to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it.”Ĭlosely correlated to Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, Art Nouveau was also greatly influenced by the penchant for Japanese art which spread among European artists in the 1880s and 1890s, in particular for wood-block prints by artists like Hokusai. This gallery features the work and biographies of leading German and Austrian artists working in the Secession, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau style. The Secession was the group most associated with the development of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) in Austria. They instead encouraged the incorporation of an aesthetic, functional design into the objects, architecture and design of everyday life. Influenced by both William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement and the Aesthetic movement, the proponents of Les Vingt fought against the low-quality, mass-produced products bred by the industrial revolution and the heavy, cluttered designs of Victorian-era art and architecture. This pioneering group, closely associated with Art Nouveau, also strove to create a new style of architecture. Later, the Vienna Secession, founded in 1897 and the Berlin Secession took their own names from the Munich group. In 1884, the term Art Nouveau first appeared in Belgian art journal ‘L’Art Moderne’ to describe the work of Les Vingt, a group of 20 artists dedicated to the unification of all arts. ![]()
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