Art Nouveau was an international design movement that originated in Europe in the late 19th century. It emphasized organic, flowing forms inspired by nature and incorporated influences from Japanese art. Major figures included Gustav Klimt, Hector Guimard, Antonio Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Their works featured curving lines, nature motifs, and innovative use of new materials like glass and iron. Art Nouveau influenced architecture, interior design, graphics and more throughout Europe during the turn of the century period.

1. Art Nouveau & design
movements

2. Art
Nouveau

3. • Gesamtkunstwerk
• Jugendstil
• Vienna Secession
• Wiener Werkstatte
• Organic form
• Japonisme

4. Art Noveau, shop front of Siegfried Bing’s store

5. • Doorway to Siegfreid Bing’s shop in Paris, L’Art
Nouveau (New Art)

6. Pavilion at the 1900 Exposition Universelle

7. Hiroshige - Navaro Rapids
Hiroshige (1797-1858). Noji
Tama River in Omi Province,
1857

8. Hiroshige's "Wisteria at Kameido Tenjin Shrine"
(originally published 1856
Hokusai (1760-1849) "Kameido" (1834)

9. Hiroshige Hokusai

10. • Gustav Klimt (1862-
1918)
• Vienna Secession
• Fin-de-siecle
• Belle Epoque

11. Gustav Klimt, Greek Traveling Theater, Vienna Burgtheater, fresco, 1884-87

12. • Klimt, Musik I, 1895, oil on canvas

13. • Gustav Klimt.
Philosophy
(final state),
1899 – 1907
• Vienna
Secession

14. • Portrait of Adele
Bloch-Bauer I,
1907

15. • Gustav Klimt,
The Kiss, 1908

16. • Secession building, Vienna, Joseph Maria Olbrich

17. • to every age its art and to art its freedom

19. • Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Workshop) logo
• better to work ten days at one piece than to manufacture ten pieces
in one day.
• gesamtkunstwerk

20. • Shop, Zurich, 1917

21. • Cabaret Fledermaus
1907 – 1913

22. • Oskar KOKOSCHKA postcard for
Kabaret Fledermaus (Flute
player and bat), 1908-9

23. • Wiener Werkstatte, Pair of Ladies’ Shoes, 1914
(printed silk fabric & leather)

25. • Joseph Hoffman, Tea Service, 1910

26. • Josef Hoffmann. (Austrian, 1870-1956). Sitzmaschine Chair
with Adjustable Back (model 670). c. 1905

27. • Josef Hoffmann. (Austrian, 1870-1956). Liqueur Glasses.
c. 1908. Blown glass

28. • Wiener Werkstatte
Shop, NY, 1922

29. Jugendstil
• “Youth Style”
• centered in Munich Germany
• Inspired by/related to other design movements in Europe, Jugendstil
also commonly used as blanket term for Art Nouveau in German
speaking areas incl. Vienna
• Jugend (Youth) magazine published from 1896

32. • Jugend no. 42, 1899

33. • Karlsplatz Stadtbahn
Pavilion
1898-99 by Otto Wagner

36. • Staircase of the House
of Victor Horta,
Brussels

37. • Victor Horta, Tassel House, Brussels

38. • Hôtel Tassel in Brussels
in 1892-3

39. • Victor HOrta,
Solvay House,
Brussels

41. • Hector Guimard, Castel Beranger,

43. • Hector Guimard, Metro (subway) entrance, Paris
• “crooked chandeliers signaling the Metro stops with bulging
frog's eyes”

44. • Porte Dauphine, Hector
Guinard, 1899
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46. • Victor Hugo Station, Paris, XVIeme arondissement

47. Guimard, Side Table & Chair, 1904-7

48. • Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support
for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926)

49. Gaudi’s “Organic Form”
• Rejecting historical styles
• Using modern materials to best possible advantage
• Buildings as sculpture
• Mathematics

50. Casa Mila floor plan

51. • Balcony railings

52. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• 1868-1928
• Furniture, metalwork, stained glass, textiles, architecture, painting,
murals
• Tea rooms and turn of the century modernism in Glasgow
• Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
• Frances Macdonald and James McNair
• (The Four, The Glasgow Style)

53. • The Room de Luxe at The Willow Tearooms, Glasgow

54. • Exterior of the Willow
Tearooms, Glasgow

56. Margaret Macdonald Macintosh

57. • Winning entry in “House for an art lover” competition

58. Drawing room, 120 mains street, Glasgow

59. • Cabinet, for the
drawing room, 120
Mains Street,
Glasgow