ART NOUVEAU

HOA 2 - A34

Presented by:
SHEENA CASTILLO
ELISHA CELEMEN
ALEX CHUA
ROMEO CONGE
 COUNTRIES W H E R E ART NOUVEAU HAD
SPREAD
● Portugal - Arte Nova
● Croatia - Secesija
● Spain - Modernismo or
Modernista
● Belgium - Art Nouveau
● Italy - Arte Nuova or Stile
Liberty or Stile Floreale
● Austria - Secession or
Sezessionstil
● Netherlands - Nieuwe Kunst
● France - Art Nouveau
● Russia - Still Modern
● Germany - Jugendstil
● United Kingdom - Modern Style or
Liberty Style or New Art
● Denmark - Skønvirke
● Hungary - Szecesszió
● Norway - Art Nouveau
● Finland - Art Nouveau
● Slovenia - Art Nouveau
● Latvia - Jugendstils
● etc
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
● ORIGIN OF ART NOUVEAU
● DEFINITION OF ART NOUVEAU
● GENERAL HISTORY OF ART NOUVEAU
● CHARACTERISTICS OF 19TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
● REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW STYLE
● FAMOUS ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTS
● ART NOUVEAU IN: (geographical, climatic, geological, culture, materials, architectural characters)
○ BELGIUM
○ FRANCE
○ GERMANY
○ AUSTRIA
○ ENGLAND
○ SPAIN
○ ITALY
○ AMERICA
ORIGIN O F ART NOUVEAU
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● The name “Art Nouveau” was

derived from a gallery named
“Salon de l’ Art Nouveau” or “La
Maison de l’ Art Nouveau” (House
of New Art).
○ The Maison de l'Art Nouveau ("House
of New Art"), abbreviated often as L'Art
Nouveau, and known also as Maison
Bing for the owner, was a gallery
opened on 26 December 1895, by
Siegfried Bing at 22 rue de Provence,
Paris.
○ The building was designed by the
architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946).
DEFINITION O F ART NOUVEAU
● Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art,
especially the decorative arts
● Most popular between 1890 and 1910
● A reaction to the academic art of the 19th century
● Inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of
plants and flowers
● It was established as the first new decorative style of the twentieth century.
● The distinguishing ornamental characteristic is its undulating, asymmetrical
line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect
wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects; the line may be
elegant and graceful or infused with a powerfully rhythmic and whip-like
force.
● It is the use of motifs and naturalistic designs of birds and insects as well
as botanical studies of plant life.
TIMELINE W H E N ART NOUVEAU R E A C H E D
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
GENERAL HISTORY ART NOUVEAU

● It all started in 1861 in England, the most industrialized

country at the time, where William Morris in collaboration with
other artists, created the Arts and Crafts Movement as a
reaction to the mid-19th-century artistic styles.
● Following socialist ideas, they wanted an art for everyone, all
objects being of beauty and of use and had to be handmade.
They did not completely succeed, as hand production was too
expensive for the masses, but schools, exhibitions and
magazines largely diffused those ideas and they created a
favorable environment for the birth of Art Nouveau.
C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S O F 19TH C E N T U R Y
ARCHITECTURE
● diverse use of historic styles
● broad range of styles from which
the 19th century architects could
choose
● eclecticism, combining features
from different sources endeavor
to achieve original effects
● only at the end of the century was
there a successful attempt to create
a ‘new style’
Eclecticism, 19th Century
GENERAL HISTORY ART NOUVEAU

● Many artists, architects,

designers and intellectuals in all
forms of decorative and visual
arts, as well as cultural and
avant-garde fields, explored the
idea to create an "art of modern
life".
● The new Style was richly
ornamental, characterized by
curves and willowy lines.
● The painters, illustrators, jewelry and
glassware designers explored symbolic or
dreamlike themes, frequently of an erotic
nature such as feminine figures in light
dresses and evanescent landscapes, but
also ornamental details, floral patterns
and decorative elements being elevated to
central focus points.
GENERAL HISTORY ART NOUVEAU
● In 1893, greatly influenced by the
ideas of Morris, a young Belgian
Architect Victor Horta, began to
plan the first important building to be
built in Art Nouveau Style : la Maison
Tassel (Hotel Tassel). It is
considered to be the starting point of
Art Nouveau architecture and one of
its most representative examples.
○ Location: Brussels, Belgium
○ Client: Emile Tassel

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GENERAL HISTORY ART NOUVEAU
● A year later in 1895, in Paris, the pioneer city of so many
world affecting art forms, the name of the Movement -Art
Nouveau- was finally settled in the French language. In
particular because of the art gallery "La Maison de l'Art
Nouveau", which was opened as a showroom for the
new art by a Japanese art collector, Siegfried Bing.
ART NOUVEAU
● It started as a name for the crafts, but
was soon applied to the ‘free’ or
‘organic’ architecture incorporating
structural and decorative ironwork,
sinuous, swelling or bursting
vegetable ornament and modest
asymmetry which had a vogue
throughout continental Europe.
 VERNACULAR
ARCHITECTURE
REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW
STYLE
● new materials and forms of construction is a major feature of 19th century
European Architecture.
○ Stone and brick were the most common, while timber construction
in remote parts of Europe.
● Art Nouveau movement walked under the flag of an art that would break
all connections to classical times, and bring down the barriers between
the fine arts and applied arts.
● Art Nouveau was more than a mere style. It was a way of thinking about
modern society and new production method.
REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW
STYLE
● It was in many ways a response to the Industrial Revolution. Some artists
welcomed the technological progress and embraced the aesthetic possibilities
of new materials such as “cast iron”.
MATERIALS USED
● cast iron
● steel and iron
● ceramics
● glass
● reinforced concrete
● lift elevators
● electric lights
● central heating
● wood
OTHER NAMES FOR ART NOUVEAU

Horta Style in Belgium

Jugendstil in Germany

Sezessionstil in Austria

Stile Floreale (Stile Liberty) in Italy

Modernismo in Spain
ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTS
Antoni Gaudi August Endell
ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTS
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Fyodor Schechtel
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Hector Guimard Henry van de Velde Victor Horta
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● GEOGRAPHIC
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● CLIMATE
- Belgium has a temperate maritime
climate influenced by the North Sea and
Atlantic Ocean, with cool summers and
moderate winters.
● GEOLOGICAL
- coal
- marble
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● Brussels, Belgium is the world

capital of Art Nouveau.
● Belgium is considered the
birthplace of Art Nouveau and
one of the best places to see
surviving examples of this
unique architecture.
● Home of the world’s first Art
Nouveau building: Hôtel
Tassel
● Art Nouveau or Horta Style
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● HISTORY
-In the late nineteenth century, Belgium was a young, dynamic, rapidly
industrializing country. Wealth poured into the country from steel mills, coal
mines and new technologies.
-In the growing urban centers, a newly wealthy middle class was buying
up real estate and developing new neighborhoods.
-Victor Horta, Paul Hankar & Henry van de Velde
-A new class of free-thinking, anti-establishment movers and shakers
embraced this new architecture as a visible break with tradition and old styles,
as a symbol of a new way of life.
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VICTOR HORTA

-one of the most influential European architects of

the late 19th century
-pioneered the Art Nouveau style depicted in a wide
variety of beautiful buildings throughout Belgium
-pioneered the use of iron and steel while drawing
decorative motifs from nature
-curving lines, open atriums, applied decoration and
total design were his hallmarks.
-his works are now regarded as iconic examples of
Art Nouveau architecture
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HOTEL TASSEL
-a townhouse built by Victor Horta in Brussels for
the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel
in 1893–1894
-four storeys, incorporates Neo-Gothic and Neo-
Rococo stylistic elements
-Important feature: octagonal hall with a staircase
leading to various levels
-the curved line, characteristic of the Art Nouveau
style, was used on the facade and also in the
interior
-declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in
2000 and today is occupied by the European
Food Information Council (EUFIC).
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HOTEL SOLVAY/ SOLVAY HOUSE

-an exceptionally elegant townhouse

on the Avenue Louise in Brussels –
designed with rich materials
-Horta designed every single detail;
furniture, carpets, light fittings,
tableware and even the doorbell.
-He used expensive materials such
as marble, onyx, bronze, tropic
woods etc.
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HORTA MUSEUM
-the home of the ‘Father of Art Nouveau’,
Victor Horta
-housed in two connected buildings: The
architect’s house and his workshop
-present Art Nouveau in its purest form, at its
prime
-turned into a museum dedicated to the life
and work of Horta which opened in 1969
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PAUL HANKAR
- Brussels architect Paul Hankar had completed
his exceptional personal home in the same
neighborhood around the same time as the Hôtel
Tassel, putting him shoulder to shoulder with
Horta on the frontlines of the movement
-striking decorative facade with sgraffiti
-leading exponent of a more “geometric” Art
Nouveau style
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CIAMBERLANI HOUSE
-Designed by Paul Hankar in
1897 for the painter Albert
Ciamberlani
-the façade of the house is what
makes it so remarkable with
spectacular engraved drawings
and two large windows on the
first floor
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- HOTEL VAN
EETVELDE
- CAUCHIE
HOUSE
- MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT
MUSEUM
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● GEOGRAPHICAL
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● GEOLOGICAL
● CLIMATE
○ Oceanic - western parts of France: ample
○ Colorful stones and Volcanicstones
■ Specifically crystalline rock and rainfall, cool summers and cool but seldom
estone
lim very cold winters
○ Continental - eastern and central France:
warmer summers and colder winters, rainfall is
ample and winters tend to be snowy especially
in the higher areas
○ Mediterranean - south of France (except in the
mountainous southwest), is one of cool winters,
hot summers, and limited rainfall.
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● RELIGION
○ For most of the nineteenth century, France was officially a Catholic country; but in 1905the
landmark law was passed, establishing the Separation of the State and the Church.
■ Since then, while Catholicism has remained the predominant religion in France, the
Catholic church is constitutionally just one among many religious structures in the
country. Catholicism exists alongside Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism.
■ Prior to 1905, Napoleon’s 1801–1808 Concordat compelled the State to support the
Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Calvinist Church, and the Jewish religion, and
to fund public religious education in those establishedreligions.
■ Religious buildings built prior to 1905 at taxpayers' expense are retained by the local or
national government, and may be used at no expense by religious organisations. As a
consequence, most Catholic churches, Protestant temples, and Jewish synagogues are
owned and maintained by the government. The government, since 1905, has been
prohibited from funding any post-1905 religious edifice, and thus religions must build and
support all newer religious buildings at their own expense. Some local governments de
facto subsidise prayer rooms as part of greater "culturalassociations".
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● Art Nouveau style was particularly associated with France, where it was
called variously:
○ Style Jules Verne
○ Le Style Métro (after Hector Guimard’s iron and glass subway entrances)
○ Art belle époque (Beautiful Era in French)
○ Art fin de siècle (French term meaning end of century)
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● HECTOR GUIMARD
○ The most well known Art Nouveau architect
in Paris
○ He brought Art Nouveau back from Belgium
where he visited Victor Horta in 1894.
○ Guimard was building at that time the "Castel
Beranger" which was to be one of his master
pieces in a medieval style.
○ He had been very inspired by what he has
seen of the Tassel Hotel and decided to
modify all his plans for Castel Beranger,
designing every detail (wall paper, door
handles, floor tiles, front door).
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● ORIGINAL GUIMARD ENTRANCE OF

PARIS METRO STATION
○ Guimard designed two types of
entrances to metro stations, with and
without glass roofs.
○ Built in cast iron,
○ fan-shaped glass awning.
○ The simpler open type of entrance,
known as an entourage (enclosure),
is framed by a "Métropolitain" sign
held between two ornate, sinuously
curved lampposts.
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● HENRI SAUVAGE
○ Sauvage was a good friend of Guimard.
○ A large part of his major Art Nouveau works
in Paris has been destroyed.
○ At the beginning of the XXth century, hedealt
with social habitations. He applied Art
Nouveau principles to this kind of building,
making of health and human size his
objectives and designing all details to
encounter these goals
○ He has developed a new concept of building:
stepped buildings. But had a lot of problems
with the urban regulations of Paris.
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● JULES AIME LAVIROTTE

○ A French architect who is best known
for the Art Nouveau buildings he
created in the 7th arrondissement in
Paris. His buildings were known for his
imaginative and exuberant decoration,
and particularly for his use of sculpture
and glazed ceramic tiles on the
facades, made in collaboration with
leading sculptors and the ceramic
manufacturer Alexandre Bigot.
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● HISTORY
○ 1871
■ The end of the Franco-Prussian
War: France's loss marked the
downfall of Napoleon III and led to
the end of the Second French
Empire. The Third Republic was
subsequently declared and
Napoleon III went into exile in the
United Kingdom until his death.
■ The Paris Commune was declared
and lasted 2 months before being
violently suppressed by the French
army.
○ 1888 - Eiffel tower is being built
○ 1889 - Eiffel Tower open to the public
○ 1894 - The Franco-Russian Alliance was
confirmed.
● 1904
○ The Entente Cordiale was signed, as an
agreement mainly based on imperial
issues. With the Anglo-Russian Entente of
1907, France, Britain and Russia were
known as the Triple Entente in opposition
to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria
and Italy.
● 1905
○ The 1905 French law on the separation of
Church and State ended government
funding of religious groups.
● 1914
○ World War I: Germany declared war on
France.
● 1918
○ World War I: The first armistice at
Compiègne was signed between France
and Germany, ending the Great War.
France regained control of Alsace-
Lorraine.
BRIEF SUMMARY O F PARIS EXPOSITION

● The Art Nouveau took shape in

works ranging from painting to
sculpture and most notably
architecture, appearing throughout
the 1900 Paris Exposition
Universelle.
● Structures such as the Porte
Monumentale entrance, the
Pavillon Bleu and the Grand Palais
were largely oriented around the
Art Nouveau theme.
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● Porte Monumentale entrance

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● the Pavillon Bleu

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● the Grand Palais

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● HISTORY
○ From Belgium, Art Nouveau quickly
arrived in France, where it became very
popular following the 1900 World's Fair in
Paris.
■ 1900’s World’s Fair in Paris - a.k.a. The Paris
Exposition of 1900 or Paris Exposition
Universelle
■ The Exposition Universelle in Paris celebrated
the arrival of a new century. Countries from
around the world were invited to present their
achievements and lifestyles, the similarities and
differences between them. The fair has not
reached a planned financial success, as not
enough tickets were sold. And it was said the
price of the entrance ticket was too high.
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● the Grand Palais

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● MATERIALS
○ Steel frame structures
■ the malleability of metal gave artists the total freedom to createcurved lines and give an
artistic sense to structural elements of the buildings.
○ Glass decorations
■ exquisite stained glass pieces were incorporated into ceilings andwindows.
○ Cast iron
■ used for many decorative and constructive elements, such as the railings for balconies
and stairs, doors, gateways, and water fountains.
○ Reinforced concrete became more and more affordable it gained popularity as a construction
material.
■ It would become the preferred material for later architecturalstyles.
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● CASTEL BERANGER (1895 -
1898)
○ the Castel Béranger is a residential
building in Paris, designed by Hector
Guimard. Castel Béranger was the first
Art Nouveau building in Paris
○ He had undertaken a project for
designing an apartment building, also in
a traditional style, for a widow called
Madame Anne-Elisabeth Fournier.
○ Impressed and inspired by Horta’s
creation, he returned to Paris and
convinced his client to allow him to build
the residential building in the style later
known as Art Nouveau. In 1895, after
getting Madame Fournier’s approval, he
began designing the structure.
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● CASTEL BERANGER
○ He incorporated many
different elements,
colors, and materials in
the building. Some of
the colors were inspired
by the colors of villas in
seashore towns. The
building was richly
ornamented but
designed in such a way
as to not appear
overwhelming or
distasteful.
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● VILLA MAJORELLE
○ A house located in the city of
Nancy, France, which was the
home and studio of the furniture
designer Louis Majorelle.
○ It was designed and built by the
architect Henri Sauvage in 1901-
1902.
○ The villa is one of the first and
most influential examples of the Art
Nouveau architectural style in
France
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● LAVIROTTE BUILDING (1899-1901)

○ An apartment building in the 7th arrondissement
of Paris, France
○ was designed by the architect Jules Lavirotte.
○ The facade is lavishly decorated with sculpture
and ceramic tiles made by the ceramics
manufacturer Alexandre Bigot.
○ Lavirotte was awarded the prize for the most
original new facade in the 7th arrondissementin
1901, and the building today is one of the best-
known surviving examples of Art Nouveau
architecture in Paris.
○ The building was a winner in the Paris
competition of new facades of 1901
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● CLIMATE
● GEOGRAPHICAL ○ Mixed and offers from frosty and harsh
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3d51.165691!4d10.451526 nice summer months are also there.
● RELIGION ○ The northwest is often covered by Atlantic
○ Predominantly Christian and influences with rain and only moderately
warm summers. In autumn there are
predominantly Protestant
occasional severe storms. The further
● HISTORY south or east you go, the warmer the
○ Franco-Prussian War summers and the more frequent the
○ World War 1 weather extremes. At the same time, the
southern Alps can be felt by letting warm
Mediterranean air through in places, but at
the same time stopping lower-lying bad
weather fronts from the south.
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● In modern art, the term "Jugendstil"

(in German "Youth Style") refers to
a movement of 19th century
German art that emerged during
the mid-1890s and continued until
the First World War.
○ It received its name from the Munich
periodical Die Jugend, which focused
on a design style known as Art
Nouveau, which was then the most
fashionable type of decorative art within
the gesamtkunstwerk tradition.
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● The Jugendstil designers had a lot in common with the Art Nouveau
designers.
● They both included natural forms in their designs which they believed they
could reform design and society.
● Jugendstil designers had a very wide range of work including, household
items, jewellery, glass designs, large mosaic walls and architecture. Their
interiors and architecture were inspired by simplicity of forms, and a shocking
modernity which helped to characterize many of their designs. Jugendstil had
developed later than Art Nouveau through the rest of Europe. This happened
because many German designers still were attached to the revivalist trends
which had characterized design in the second half of the century.
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● Jugendstil evolved in two phases:

○ The first phase opted more for designs
that were more similar to the BritishArts
and Crafts movement, which
emphasised much more on the 'floral'
art, the naturalistic and representative
forms like the ones seen in the graphic
and applied arts of that time.
○ The post 1900, was more about the
abstract and dynamic form which were
inspired from the theories of Belgian
architect Henri van de Velde.
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● AUGUST ENDELL
○ A designer, writer, teacher, and German Jugendstil
architect.
○ He is also as one of the founders of the Jugendstil
movement, the German expressionist movement of
Art Nouveau.
○ Thoroughly versed in art theory and style as he was,
August Endell expressed important ideas on the
stylistic intention underlying the work of Jugendstil
artists.
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● VILLA BECHTOLSHEIM (1896-1898)
● The villa is a significant building with its
sweeping stucco decoration and the
protruding oval tower, which is one of the
first houses in Art Nouveau style in
Munich - probably the oldest surviving
Art Nouveau building in Germany.
● This was built for Clemens Freiherr von
Bechtolsheim by Martin Dülfer - the first
residential building of the great architect,
○ the decor probably came from designs by
Richard Riemerschmid .
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● VILLA BECHTOLSHEIM
(1896-1898)
● The building is a listed
building and received after
a exemplary renovation in
1970, in which the original
condition of the villa was
largely approximated again,
the facade price of the City
of Munich.
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A R T N O U V E A U IN A U S T R I A
● GEOGRAPHICAL
○ During the Art Nouveau ● GEOLOGICAL - Precambrian
period, Austria was part of rocks and minerals together with
the Austrian Hungarian younger marine sedimentary
empire. rocks uplifted by the Alpine
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○ Eastern Orthodoxy
○ Protestantism
○ Islam
○ Buddhism
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● CLIMATE - Due to the
topographical diversity and the
relatively large west-east
expanse, there are three quite
different climatic regions:
○ East: Pannonian climate with a
continental influence – low
precipitation, hot summers but only
moderately cold winters.
○ Alpine Region: Alpine climate - high
precipitation (except inner Alpine
valley regions such as the upper
Inntal), short summers, long winters.
● Remainder of the country: transient
climate influenced by the Atlantic (in the
West) and a continental influence in the
South-east. Before starting your walk or
hike in the mountains please inform
yourself about the weather conditions,
danger of avalanges or route
conditions. Warnings of locals should
not be disregarded.
● Art Nouveau was called
"Jugendstil" ("Style of the
Youth") or "Secessionsstil".
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● The Vienna Secession was created as a reaction to the conservatism of the

artistic institutions in the Austrian capital at the end of the 19th century.
● The Vienna Secession's work is often referred to (during the years before
World War I) as the Austrian version of Jugendstil, the German term for Art
Nouveau. The Secession's most dramatic decline in fortunes occurred at
virtually the same time that Jugendstil fell out of style elsewhere in Europe.
A R T N O U V E A U IN A U S T R I A

● OTTO WAGNER
○ was one of the founding members of the
revolutionary artists’ association Vienna
Secession.
○ In the last 20 years of his life the trained
architect, visual artist and brick layer
shaped Vienna with a series of
constructions.
○ Among the best are the Austrian Postal
Savings Bank, villas, railway stations, and
residential buildings to the most beautiful
Art Nouveau weir on the Danube.
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● JOSEF HOFFMANN
○ German architect whose work was
important in the early development
of modern architecture in Europe.
○ Hoffman studied under Otto
Wagner in Vienna and in 1899
joined in the founding of the
Vienna Sezession, which,
although influenced by the Art
Nouveau movement, was more
modernist than Wagner’s
approach.
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● JOSEPH MARIA OLBRICH

○ German architect who was a cofounder
of the Wiener Sezession, the Austrian
manifestation of the Art Nouveau
movement. Olbrich was a student of Otto
Wagner
○ He succeeded in overcoming the
weaknesses and limitations of Art
Nouveau architecture by combining its
fantasy appearance with spatial and
distributive functionality
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● VIENNA SECESSION
BUILDING
○ The Secession Building (Wiener
Secessionsgebäude) is an exhibition
hall built in 1897 by Joseph Maria
Olbrich as an architectural manifesto
for the Vienna Secession, located in
Vienna, Austria.
○ Secession refers to the seceding of a
group of rebel artists from the long-
established fine art institution.
○ The first dedicated, permanent
exhibition space for contemporary art
of all types in the West.
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● VIENNA SECESSION
BUILDING
○ The motto of the Secessionist
movement is written above the
entrance of the pavilion: "To
every age its art, to every art its
freedom" (German: Der Zeit ihre
Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit).
Below this is a sculpture of three
gorgons representing painting,
sculpture, and architecture.
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● KARLSPLATZ STADTBAHN STATION

● is a former station of the Viennese
Stadtbahn.
● The buildings above ground on
Karlsplatz are a well-known example of
Jugendstil architecture.
● They were designed by Otto Wagner,
adviser to the Transport Commission in
Vienna, and Joseph Maria Olbrich and
are, unlike the other Stadtbahn stations,
made of a steel framework with marble
slabs mounted on the exterior.
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● KIRCHE AM STEINHOF
○ Also called the Church of St. Leopold, is the Roman
Catholic oratory of the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital
in Vienna, Austria.
○ The building designed by Otto Wagner is
considered one of the most important Art Nouveau
churches in the world
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plentiful rainfall all year round. The
prevailing wind is from the south-west,
bringing mild and wet weather to
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warmest in the south, which is closest to
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KNOWN ARCHITECTS

- Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Glasgow School of Art

- projected an image of pure, clean geometry

Mackintosh Rose Motif

Henry Williams - Everard's Printing Works (1901)

- decorative tiles by W. j. Neatby

- alphabet design by William Morris
William J. Neatby (tile works)

- tile-clad exterior of the Fox and Anchor public house, Islington, London (1898)
- the tiling of the Royal Arcade, Norwich (1899)
- Harrods department store, Knightbridge, London (1903).
Arthur Liberty

- Liberty and Co. - started in London, expanded to Italy

- sells wallpapers and other decorative fabrics
- Preferred “Stile Liberty” than “Art Nouveau”
Other Art Nouveau inspired buildings

● Wong Kei (H. M. Wakeley)

● Bolton House (A. I. Selby)
● Bishopsgate Institute (Charles Townsend)
A R T N O U V E A U IN S P A I N
HISTORY

At the end of last century, Barcelona was quaked by anarchism together with
catalan nationalism. It was an area of quick industrial development and the artistic
world was not forgotten. The catalan modernism movement aimed to gather every
artistic skill and wanted to get out of the steady and leisurely historicism like other
european Art Nouveau movements. It starts from the 1880 with the painter Ramon
Casas and the theoriser Cirici Pellicer.

FA M O U S A R C H I T E C T S

● Gaudi
● Lluis D o m e n e c h i Montaner
● Josep P u ig y Cadalfach
 Antoni Gaudi
- The world’s most famous architect took the tenets of Modernisme to daring
extremes and developed a style unmistakably his own
- Eusebi Guell was his patron in the early days and works like the Guell Palace
and Park Guell are a lasting tribute to their partnership. Later La Sagrada
Familia came to dominate Gaudi’s life, as the intensely pious architect lived
out his final years in the church’s crypt working on a project which is still
unfinished to this day. (There is hope the church can be completed for the
100th anniversary of Gaudi’s death).

FAMOUS WORKS

- La Pedrera (Casa Mila)

- La Sagrada Familia
- Casa Batllo
C A S A MILA (La Pedrera)
”The stone quarry”

twisting wrought iron balconies and

designed by Josep Maria Jujol
courtyard

constructed out of brick covered with lime, broken marble, or

glass
balcony
 floral paintings, iron gate

patio
 Roof and chimneys

attic, Catalan vault

L A S A G R A D A FAMILIA (Temple Expiatori
d e la S a g r a d a F a m í l i a )
Nativity facade
Passion facade
Glory facade
Interior
CASA BATLLO
Roof terrace
-dragon back design
4 chimneys
Bulb towers

Water lilies
- irregular oval windows
- Blue lightwell
- Dragon stairs
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Giuseppe Sommaruga
PALAZZO CASTILIOGNI
Milan, Italy

Milan

- rusticated blocks
- Flat roofs
nude female statues by
Ernesto Bazzaro
Pietro Fenoglio
CASA FENOGLIO-LAFLEUR
Turin, Italy

- stained glass bow window

PALAZZO DELLA VITTORIA
Turin, Italy

- golden door handles shaped

like lizards
- balcony, dragon details
A R T N O U V E A U IN A M E R I C A
● Louis Sullivan is credited with building the
first modern skyscraper. The Wainwright
building went up 10 stories high. For
ornamentation he used a combination of
organic, flowing designs superimposed
against strong geometric shapes.
Golden arch,
Transportation
Building
LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
- artist and designer
- Tiffany style
- stained glass
DIFFERENCE OF ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO
● Art Nouveau is flowing and about curves. It looks to nature and organic
elements for much of its inspiration. Flora is widely represented and also
animals and insects, both real and imagined, decorate many pieces with bats,
dragons, birds and dragonflies as popular motifs. You will find geometry in Art
Nouveau, but usually in forms with curving rather than hard edges. Art
nouveau is much more decorative, flowing, and floral.
● Art Deco is sharp and based on straight lines and corners. It’s about
perfect forms, circles and angles. Geometry plays a big part in Art Deco
works made during the 1920’s and 1930’s. It was minimalistic and became
even more so as the movement progressed through the years. It is
considered the first genuinely industrialised style and is characterised by its
pure geometric shapes.