Art & Design Styles: Art Nouveau

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchners intention that they belong together, over the years some ...

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emi...

The New York jewellery firm of Marcus & Co. (18921942) created exceptional examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery for an art-loving, we...

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, Healthis the thing! Though recently diagnosed with intestinal canc...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

Munich was one of the earliest and most important centres of Art Nouveau in Germany. After the founding of the first Secession here (1892), the ma...

Brussels is well known for its wide variety of buildings in the Art Deco style, which were built in the aftermath of the Great War in the 1920s and...

Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artisti...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltze...

Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artisti...

The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illus...

Hermann Obrist (1863-1927) is regarded as one of the most influential founders and visionaries of the German 'Jugendstil' (art nouveau) movement. H...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is well known for his golden masterpieces full of sumptuous ornamentation, as well as his incredible portrait...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav is well known for his richly decorative commissioned artwork and murals, but he also produced a number of beautiful...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

An exuberant, radical style, Art Nouveau blithely trampled many of the Victorian Age's orthodoxies of art and design. Exploding age-old strictures ...