Styles and Movements

Art Nouveau

ART noo-VOH

Nineteenth-Century Revival and Eclectic Architecture

The short, intense movement of roughly 1890 to 1910 that sought a wholly new ornamental language in the curving lines of plants and organic growth, applied to iron, glass and tile. Victor Horta in Brussels and Hector Guimard in Paris defined it in building; in Barcelona, Antoni Gaudi carried its organic impulse to heights all his own.

Facts

Period

from 1890 1

Circa; conventionally dated from about 1890 to the First World War.

Period

to 1910 1

Circa; the movement faded in the decade before the First World War.

Origin Region

Brussels and Paris 1

Art Nouveau

1 entry

Active Era

Award

Nationality

Eliel Saarinen

Art Nouveau

Connections

Associated With

Ornament and Crime

Editorial link from the concept to a related style, element, milestone or figure; no citation attached

Notable Examples

Ainola

Source Ainola (Wikipedia)

Ammende Villa

Source Ammende Villa (Wikipedia)

Antwerp Central Station

Source Wikipedia: Antwerp Central Station

Cartel seat (monument)

Source Cartel seat (monument) (Wikipedia)

Casa Batllo

Source Casa Batllo, Wikipedia

Casa Mila

A landmark of Catalan Modernisme, part of the broader Art Nouveau movement.

Casa Vicens

Source Casa Vicens (Wikipedia)

Eliel Saarinen

Source Wikipedia: Eliel Saarinen

Flinders Street Station

Source Flinders Street railway station, Wikipedia

Galeries Lafayette Paris

Source Galeries Lafayette, Wikipedia

Grand Hotel Europe

Source Grand Hotel Europe, Wikipedia

Grand Palais

Source Grand Palais (Wikipedia)

Grandhotel Pupp

Source Grandhotel Pupp (Wikipedia)

Great Synagogue of Rome

Source Great Synagogue of Rome (Wikipedia)

Helsinki Central Station

Source Helsinki Central Station (Wikipedia)

Juan Carlos Castagnino Municipal Museum of Art

Source Juan Carlos Castagnino Municipal Museum of Art (Wikipedia)

Kazansky Rail Terminal

Source Moscow Kazansky railway station - Wikipedia

Mercado Central, Valencia

Source Mercado Central, Valencia (Wikipedia)

Milano Centrale

Source Milano Centrale, Wikipedia

Palacio de Bellas Artes

Source Palacio de Bellas Artes (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Montecitorio

Source Palazzo Montecitorio, Wikipedia

Pera Palace Hotel

Source Pera Palace Hotel - Wikipedia

Prague Main Railway Station

Source Praha hlavni nadrazi, Wikipedia

Sagrada Familia

Gaudi's Catalan Modernisme is the Catalan branch of the Art Nouveau moment, though his structural language is entirely his own.

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

Šaloun Villa

Source Saloun Villa (Wikidata)

Schloss Wolfsbrunn

Source Schloss Wolfsbrunn (Wikipedia)

Tamminiemi

Source Tamminiemi

Villa Bernasconi

Source Villa Bernasconi (Wikipedia)

Villa Esche

Source Villa Esche (Wikipedia)

Villa Fallet

Source Villa Fallet (Wikipedia)

Villa Haux

Source Villa Haux (Wikipedia)

Villa Lysis

Source Villa Lysis (Wikipedia)

Villa Majorelle

Source Villa Majorelle (Wikipedia)

Villa Scott

Source Villa Scott (Wikidata)

Villa Zanelli

Source Villa Zanelli (Wikipedia)

Villino Florio

Source Villino Florio (Wikipedia)

Villino Ruggeri

Source Villino Ruggeri (Wikipedia)

In the Other Atlases

Originated In

Brussels

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject originated.

Source Art Nouveau (Wikipedia)Lead section

Quote, Lead section

The first Art Nouveau houses and interior decoration appeared in Brussels in the 1890s, in the architecture and interior design of houses designed by Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde, and especially Victor Horta, whose Hôtel Tassel was completed in 1893.

Sources

1. Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.

britannica.com/art/Western-architecture/Art-Nouveau, architects and themes passage
Art Nouveau architects gave idiosyncratic expression to many of the themes that had preoccupied the 19th century, ranging from Viollet-le-Duc’s call for structural honesty to Sullivan’s call for an organic architecture.
Notable Examples: Sagrada Familia