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Plakatstil, "poster style" in German, was an early style of poster design that began in the early 20th century, using bold, straight fonts with very simple designs, in contrast to Art Nouveau posters. Lucian Bernhard was a leading figure. [citation needed]
Wooden Altar of Veit Stoss at St Mary's Church in Kraków Blind Veit Stoss with granddaughter by Jan Matejko (1865), National Museum in Warsaw. Veit Stoss (German: [faɪt ˈʃtoːs], also spelled Stoß and Stuoss; Polish: Wit Stwosz; Latin: Vitus Stoss; before 1450 – about 20 September 1533) was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between ...
Upper sculpture hall, Albertinum, Dresden. The Albertinum (German pronunciation: [albɛʁˈtiːnʊm]) is a modern art museum. The sandstone-clad Renaissance Revival building is located on Brühl's Terrace in the historic center of Dresden, Germany. It is named after King Albert of Saxony.
The Bauhaus emblem, designed by Oskar Schlemmer, was adopted in 1922. Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005. The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ⓘ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. [1]
The Glyptothek (German: [ɡlʏptoˈteːk] ⓘ) is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence γλυπτο- glypto-"sculpture", from the Greek verb γλύφειν glyphein "to carve" and the noun θήκη "container").
The name was popularized by the Maison de l'Art Nouveau ('House of the New Art'), an art gallery opened in Paris in 1895 by the Franco-German art dealer Siegfried Bing. In Britain, the French term Art Nouveau was commonly used, while in France, it was often called by the term Style moderne (akin to the British term Modern Style ), or Style 1900 ...
Stairway of the Hôtel Tassel, an early example of Gesamtkunstwerk. A Gesamtkunstwerk (German: [ɡəˈzamtˌkʊnstvɛʁk] ⓘ, literally 'total artwork', translated as 'total work of art', [1] 'ideal work of art', [2] 'universal artwork', [3] 'synthesis of the arts', 'comprehensive artwork', or 'all-embracing art form') is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.
Jugendstil (German pronunciation: [ˈjuːɡn̩tˌstiːl] ⓘ; "Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. [1] It was the German counterpart of Art Nouveau.