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17 unusual facts about art nouveau


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October 15 - Henry van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement (b. 1863)

Albert of Riga

It is known for its Art Nouveau apartment buildings, many of them designed by the architect Mikhail Eisenstein.

Arsène Herbinier

His works were typical of the Art Nouveau style, including the clear influence of Japanese prints and the sinuous lines, naturalistic motifs and pale female figures draped in flowing gowns.

Francis Thibaudeau

His book, La lettre d'imprimerie (The Letter of the Printing Office), was printed in Auriol, a typeface designed by its namesake, George Auriol and reflecting typical Art Nouveau design.

Liljevalchs konsthall

Bergsten had attempted a career as an avant-gardist architect throughout the early 20th century, influenced by Austrian Art Nouveau architect Otto Wagner.

Løvenborg

It is the earliest example of Art Nouveau architecture in Denmark and also contains the first elevator in the country.

It is the first example of the Art Nouveau style in Denmark, Rosen being its main proponent in the country.

Moneglia

It houses now an Art Nouveau-style residence, dating to the early 20th century.

Ornament and Crime

The essay was written when Art Nouveau, which Loos had excoriated even at its height in 1900, was about to show a new way of modern art.

Postage stamps and postal history of Austria

In 1919 the republic issued new designs; a post horn, the coat of arms, a kneeling man representing the new republic, and the Parliament building, all done in a vaguely Art Nouveau style, and inscribed "DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH" ("ÖSTERREICH" appeared in 1922).

Sack of Palermo

More serious than the wartime destruction of the old city was the political decision to turn away from its restoration in favour of building a “new Palermo”, at first concentrated at the northern end, beyond the Art Nouveau neighbourhood of 19th century expansion.

St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool

This is in Art Nouveau style and carries a Celtic cross, the word "PEACE", and the date of the completion of the war.

Teatro Nacional de El Salvador

Multiple architectural styles were enriched in the fusion of the construction of the National Theatre including: Versailles Style, Rococo, Romanticism, and Art Nouveau, with regional touches.

This Time We Mean It

The art style on the cover of the album is remarkably similar to the art style of Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, Alfons Mucha.

Tourism in Slovenia

The nation's capital, Ljubljana, has many important Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings, with several important works of the native born architect Jože Plečnik.

Villa Lusthusporten

The building was sold to the Cork council Hjalmar Wicander in 1898 and he commissioned architect Carl Möller to remodel the house to its present appearance of a Baroque Revival architecture with Art Nouveau decor considered fashion at the time.

William Brown Macdougall

He only illustrated for a very brief period between 1896 and 1898, but contributed greatly to this form of art - his decorative vignettes seen in "The Fall of the Nibelungs", "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" and "The Blessed Damozel" owe much to Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts Movement motifs.


All Saints Cathedral, Chicago

There are strong parallels between the church's internal painting scheme with its art nouveau-like flairs and the painter of many of Kraków's most famous Gothic churches Stanisław Wyspiański, making the church unique in this respect among Chicago's Polish churches.

Amandus Adamson

His four allegorical bronzes for the Elisseeff department store in St. Petersburg (for architect Gavriil Baranovsky), and the French-style caryatids and finial figures for the Singer House (for architect Pavel Suzor) are major components of the "Russian Art Nouveau" visible along Nevsky Prospekt.

Concertgebouw de Vereeniging

The hall was officially opened in 1915, and is built in a nixture of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles.

Frey Wille

Among other artists whose styles are used by Frey Wille in the creation of their product collection are, most notably, Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, one of the founders of impressionism Claude Monet, and Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, the father of Art Nouveau.

Hotel Gellért

The hotel was erected on the right bank of the river Danube between 1916 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style with some biomorphic elements, at the foot of Gellért Hill, next to Szabadság Bridge.

Kitay-gorod

The eastern segment (Staraya Square) was rebuilt by the Moscow Merchant Society, with the late Art Nouveau Boyarsky Dvor offices (by Fyodor Schechtel) and the neoclassical 4, Staraya Square (by Vladimir Sherwood, Jr., 1912–1914) which later housed the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Langworth

Plaster decoration, part Art Nouveau, part Pre-Raphaelite style, was lost in the rebuilding; Pevsner's view was that with the decoration "the chapel was one of the outstanding ensembles in England of the style of 1900".

Mackenzie Castle

Built in 1893-1905, it was designed by Art Nouveau architect Gino Coppedè under commission by Florentine banker Evan Mackenzie, whose family lived here for 26 years.

Ron Rezek

Each of the fan models are inspired by American and Europeans design movements of the 20th Century, including Arts and Crafts movement, Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, Wiener Werkstatte, Viennese Secessionism, Bauhaus along with Futurism and French Art Deco.

Singer House

The architect found an elegant solution to the limit of 23.5 meters: the six-storey Art Nouveau building is crowned with a glass tower, which in turn is topped by a glass globe sculpture created by the Estonian artist Amandus Adamson.

Taxile Doat

Doat worked at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1877 to 1905, and was one of the artists who introduced the Art Nouveau style.

The Lion and the Unicorn

The accompanying illustration by Charles Vess applies an Art Nouveau style to a realistic depiction of a lion attacking its prey.

Überbrettl

The great hall was lavishly decorated in an Art nouveau style by August Endell, nevertheless the extensive costs combined with the remote location turned out to be fatal.

Victoria Square, Montreal

It features Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau outdoor entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station, a statue of Queen Victoria, the "Taichi Single Whip" sculpture by Ju Ming and trees lining its bounding avenues.

Vilmos Zsolnay

Pyrogranite is a ceramic building material that he introduced and that became popular with the architects of the Hungarian art nouveau movement.

Xfinity Live!

Starting in 2008, Comcast Spectacor and Cordish Company developers partnered for the proposed Art Nouveau design, applying neon- and LED-lighting-accented structures and walkways to create a virtual futuristic architectural experience.

Ybry

Jaroslawski collaborated with Baccarat for the perfume bottles but also had commissioned Lalique to create the luxurious Art Nouveau glass medallions.