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The term Art Nouveau was first used in the 1880s in the Belgian journal L'Art Moderne to describe the work of Les Vingt, twenty painters and sculptors seeking reform through art. 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.
The Art Nouveau movement began in Europe as a response to the Industrial Revolution and the dominance of historical revival styles. Artists and architects sought to create a design language that ...
Maison de l'Art Nouveau was opened by Siegfried Bing in Paris: Pan magazine was founded and published by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Julius Meier-Graefe, and Richard Dehmel in Berlin: A poster for Gismonda by Alphonse Mucha was published in Paris: 1896 The poster for the cabaret Le Chat noir was created by Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen in Paris
The Maison de l'Art Nouveau showed paintings by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Toulouse-Lautrec, glass from Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé, jewelry by René Lalique, and posters by Aubrey Beardsley. Bing wrote in 1902, "Art Nouveau, at the time of its creation, did not aspire in any way to have the honor of becoming a generic term.
The Maison de l’Art nouveau, 1895. 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. [1] The building was designed by the architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946). [2]
Late 1895 Art Nouveau spread throughout Europe, and in the 1900’s the style had reached to be international. The Polish Art Nouveau style was centred in Kraków, once Poland's royal capital city. Stanisław Wyspiański was the chief Art Nouveau artist in Poland; his paintings, theatrical designs, stained glass windows and building interiors ...
Art Nouveau architecture in the United States (14 C, 8 P) Art Nouveau architecture in Uruguay (1 P) This page was last edited on 24 September 2019, at 17:03 (UTC). ...
The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe.It began as a reaction against the formal vocabulary of European academic art, eclecticism and historicism of the 19th century, and was based upon an innovative use of new materials, such as iron and glass, to open larger interior ...