Art Nouveau: Geography

‘Youth Style’ in Belgium
Begining of Art Nouveau
Henri van de Velde1863-1957
Belgian painter, architect and interior designer. 
Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany 
Victor, Baron Horta 1861-1947
Belgian architect and designer. 
Credited as the first to introduce this decorative style

‘Jugendstil’ in Germany
Jugend (Youth): the illustrated weekly magazine of art and lifestyle of Munich, magazine founded in 
1896 by Georg Hirth. 
graphic arts, architecture, typography, furnitures.. inspired by plant and animal forms, 
Henry Van de Velde (Belgian) worked most of his career in Germany, influenced Peter Behrens, & the Deutscher Werkbund

‘Le Modern Style’ in France
Posters were popularized by the invention of lithography, 
which allowed coloured posters to be produced cheaply and easily.

Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen‘s poster art often advertised Parisian cabaret performers. 
Alphonse Mucha and Eugène Grasset were known for their stylized figures, particularly of women. 
Hector Guimard’s metro entrances
Cabinet by Emile Gallé, Nancy, France

‘Glasgow School’ in Scottland
from 1890s to sometime around 1910. 
Glasgow School collective was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald (Mackintosh’s wife), MacDonald’s sister Frances, and Herbert MacNair.

‘Arte Joven’ in Spain, Barcelona 
Antoni Gaudi modernizing Art Nouveau tendencies
the Casa Batlló, Casa Mila, Park Guell
(Famous structures as the Sagrada Familia characteristically is associated to revivalist Neo-Gothic.)

‘Art Nouveau’ in America
American art nouveau principal contributors were Will H. Bradley, who popularized the poster style, and Louis Comfort Tiffany glass works

Vienna Secession, Austria 1897: (pic)
Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, Otto Wagner
The Secession artists objected to the prevailing conservatism of the Vienna Künstlerhaus
resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists
housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
Influenced by the music of Wagner 
they joined arts, decorative arts and music together to create an total work of art.
The group earned considerable credit for its exhibition policy 
1897 Joseph Maria Olbrich designed The secession building at Vienna, built in for exhibitions of the group 
1898 Otto Wagner’s Majolika Haus in Vienna 1898
1909 Hoffmann first great work, Sanatorium Purkersdorf (pic)