Art Nouveau: International and National Styles in Europe (Critical Introductions to Art)

This groundbreaking critical survey of the Art Nouveau movement reveals the true diversity of this style across the breadth of the European continent. With the inclusion, for the first time, of Eastern Europe and covering the full range of artistic media, Howard shows how this movement changed the face of European art and design from Paris to Prague. Clearly structured by country, it traces the emergence of Art Nouveau, highlighting the particular interpretations of the style in each country. Countries covered include: Belgium; Spain; Britain; Austria; Hungary; and Russia. Each chapter contains sections on political and cultural contexts, specific visual characteristics and key artists and designers. Howard analyses the contribution of both well-known artists ad designers such as Gaudi; Van de Velde; Mackintosh; and Mucha, and brings to light many others whose contributions have until now been largely inaccessible. With a full bibliography, glossary, and museums listing, this book provides a complete and fascinating introduction to this ever-popular subject. INTRODUCTION 1 Politics and culture8 8 Gallen Defence of the Sampo 1896 tempera on canvas 122 x 125 Turku Art Museum 14 Gallen Lemminkainens Mother 1897 tempera on canvas 85 x 118 Ateneum The Antell Collection The Central State Archives Jouko Kononen Helsinki 15 Paris and Nancy 16 Rozentals Peerkons frieze Latvian Society Building Merkela 13 Riga 1910 17 Baranowsky Autumn 1902 Museum ofJ Rozentals and R Blaumanis Riga 18 Fidus Well be like the Sun Moscow 1903 page 19 Kotera Macha villa Bechyne 1902 97 FANTA 98 POLfVKA 99 Budapest and beyond Background103 103 Appearance104 104 Vaszary The news 1899 mural for Otthon Journalists Club Budapest 105 RIPPLRONAI106 106 LECHNER 108 Mucha Job cigarette papers poster 1896 colour lithograph 21 De Feure Drawing room installation LArt Nouveau Paris 1900 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 25 Vallgren The Widow Girl Flowers The Weeper five statuettes 1897 bronze 26 Guimard Castel Henriette Sevres destroyed 18991900 27 Brussels and Liege 31 PrivatLivemont PD corsets poster 1897 33 Van de Velde Lemmen Smoking Room installation LArt Nouveau 1895 36 Serrurier installation Liege 1898 37 Wolfers Congo album stand c 1899 bronze and oak 100 x 65 approx 38 Munich 40 Obrist Blossoming Tree embroidered wall hanging 1896 silk on silk rep 321 x 210 Applied Art Gallery Munich 42 Endell Elvira Studio Munich destroyed 1897 43 Barcelona Background47 47 De Riqueruan Torra Sausage Factory poster 1899 49 Appearance50 50 GAUDI52 52 Gaudi Casa Mila Passeig de Gracia 92 Barcelona 190510 E T Archive 53 Glasgow Background5 6 56 Beggarstaff Brothers Don Quixote design for a poster 1895 57 Appearance58 58 Margaret Macdonald Heart of the Rose gesso panel 1901 59 MACKINTOSH 61 Vienna Background65 65 Hoffmann Vienna Applied Arts School installation Paris exhibition 1900 67 Appearance68 68 Olbrich Secession Building Friedrichstrasse 12 Vienna 1898 69 Stohr plaster cut Beethoven exhibition Vienna 1902 71 Moser illustration to Holz Ver Sacrum 1898 74 Hoffmann Palais Stoclet 279281 Avenue de Tervueren WoluweSaintPierre Brussels 190511 75 Prague and beyond Background79 79 Appearance81 81 Kastner folding chair 1900 82 BILEK83 83 OTHERS 85 Ohmann Central Hotel 10 Hybernska Prague 18991901 87 TOPIC SALON 89 Preisler The Wind and the Breeze 1896 left side of triptych charcoal on paper 35 x 54 National Gallery Prague 92 APPLIED ARTS SCHOOL 93 Nemec metalware 1901 94 KOTERA 95 Kotera Peterka House 12 Wenceslas Square Prague 1899 96 Lechner Post Office Savings Bank 4 Rozenberg hazaspar Budapest 18981901 Hungarian Museum of Architecture Budapest 1n 46 Lechner Sipeki Ba... 111 GODOLL6 III 112 Wigand living room early 1900s 113 Nagy Sakuntala tapestry 1909 114 Kriesch The Fountain of Art fresco Academy of Music Budapest 1907 115 Tory Pogany and Gyorgyi Hungarian pavilion Turin exhibition 1911 119 Cracow and beyond Background123 123 Appearance124 124 LEMBERG 125 CRACOW 127 Witkiewicz House under the Firs Zakopane 189697 131 WYSPIANSKI 132 God the Father stained glass design for Franciscan Church Cracow 18961902 pastel 846 x 390 National Museum Cracow 133 OTHERS 134 St Petersburg Moscow and beyond 137 Vrubel Mikula Selyaninovich ceramic f1replace 1899 139 Korovin Pavilion of the Far North Nizhny Novgorod exhibition 1896 143 Golovin Teremok door Contemporary Art exhibition St Petersburg 1903 145 Fomin installation Architecture and Applied Art exhibition Moscow 19023 151 Gimpel Ilyashev Rossiya Insurance Company Building Morskaya 154 Bilibin The Merchant Kalashnikov illustration to Lermontov 1904 157 Helsinki and beyond 160 Gallen The Kings Song illustration to Scheerbart Pan 1895 165 Finch Iris ceramics c 1899 168 Jalava Carpet 1906 171 Saarinen Finnish Pavilion interior Paris Exhibition 1900 172 Saarinen hall Hvittrask 19025 Richard Weston 175 Saarinen Lindgren and Gesellius Pohjola Insurance Company Building entrance Aleksanterinkatu 44 Helsinki 18991901 177 Sonck St Johns Church entrance Tuomiokirkonpuisto Tampere 19017 179 Riga 184 Madernieks Zalktis cover 1908 190 Rozentals Saga 1899 pastel on card 68 x 85 Saldus Art and History Museum Inta Pujate 193 Scheel Scheffel Bobrov Building 8 Smilsu Riga 1902 201 PekSens Kamintius House 23 Tallinas Riga 19012 203 PekSens Laube Klavina House 26 A Caka Riga 1905 204 PekSens Laube Kenins Secondary School 1517 Terbatas Riga 1905 205 Select bibliography208 208 Reference guide214 214 Selected collections 222 Clearly structured by country, it traces the emergence of Art Nouveau, highlighting the particular interpretations of the style in each region. Countries covered include Belgium, Spain, Britain, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Latvia, and Russia. Each chapter contains sections on political and cultural contexts, specific visual characteristics and key artists and designers. Howard analyses the work of well-known figures such as Gaudi, Van de Velde, Mackintosh, and Mucha, and brings to light many others whose contributions have until now been largely inaccessible. With a full bibliography, glossary, and museum and gallery listing, the book provides a complete and fascinating introduction to this significant and ever-popular subject.