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Period: 19th Century
"Fish Blood" Art Nouveau Lithograph by Gustav Klimt for VerSacrum
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Ver Sacrum (meaning "Sacred Spring" in Latin) was conceived by Gustav Klimt, Max Kurzweil and Ludwig Hevesi. During its six years of activity, 471 original drawings were made specifi...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Die Hexe" Art Nouveau Lithograph by Gustav Klimt for Ver Sacrum
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Ver Sacrum (meaning "Sacred Spring" in Latin) was conceived by Gustav Klimt, Max Kurzweil and Ludwig Hevesi. During its six years of activity, 471 original drawings were made specifi...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Salon des Cent" Original 1897 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
From Les Maitres de L'Affiche, plate 94. Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris.
Maîtres de l'Affiche (Masters of the Poster) refers to 256 color lithographic plates used to create an a...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Art et Decoration" Original 1902 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Plate 57 from "Documents Decoratifs", published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1902.
Literature: Rennert/Weill, A.7 p. 389, Lendl p.132-33 no.105, Grand Palais no 28...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Amen" Original 1899 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Lead Us Not Into Temptation" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Forgive Our Trespasses" Original 1899 Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" Original 1899 Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"On Earth as it is in Heaven" Original 1899 Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"On Earth as it is in Heaven" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Our Father Who Art in Heaven" Original 1899 Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Alphonse Mucha worked mainly as a poster artist and became an influential figure of Art Nouveau in late 1890s, when poster illustrations were emerging as popular art form and new pri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fromme's Kalender Art Nouveau Lithograph Poster Koloman Moser Vienna Secession
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Lithograph printed by Albert Berger, Vienna.
This design "was considered very advanced in 1899, with its large scale portrayal of the motif and the almost complete renunciation of interior drawing. The silhouette of the body is in mysterious contrast to the realistically portrayed head and hands. The unwavering gaze of the woman underlines the symbolism of the design: the Norn [ancient Norse goddess of fate] with the hour-glass and snake-ring embodies the eternal circle of life and the running out of time" (Vienna Secession, Denscher, p. 45). As the poster was originally used in 1899, the waning sand in the hourglass quite naturally can be assumed to be the coming of the end of the century.
KOLOMAN MOSER: Instead of applying his flair and art education to paintings, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil (Youth Style) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Femme Sous la Lampe (Woman Under the Lamp) signed lithograph; József Rippl-Rónai
Located in Chicago, IL
Framed lithograph, signed ("Rónai") and numbered ("no. 50") by the artist. Also includes a silver József Rippl-Rónai coin, made in 1977 for the 50th anniversary of his death.
The li...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Kiss
By Peter Behrens
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist edition of 38 on Imperial Japon paper. Genossenschaft Pan GmbH, Berlin, publisher; Dr. C Wolf & Sohn, Munich.
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Delftsche Slaolie
By Jan Toorop
Located in Chicago, IL
Jan Toorop was born in Java, studied in Holland and then spent three key years in Brussels, where he was a member of the circle of artists, "Les XX," during which time he befriended ...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Bénédictine" Original 1898 Lithograph, Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Published by F. Champenois, Paris.
"Bénédictine shows two girls pressing flowers amid book leaves, to remind us of the herbs that go into making the liqueur; the bottom part of the poster has a panorama of the Fecamp Abbey where the drink originated. Around 1510, one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, prepared a liqueur using local wine and native herbs found in nearby woods, together with a few imported ingredients including muscat, ginger, clove and cardamom" (Wine Spectator, 70).
As with all poster this size, the lithograph was made, in color, on two panels and joined at the center.
Alphonse Mucha was a painter and decorative artist best known for the sensual Art...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien, plate #66: "Tragedy" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Gustav Klimt created this image for inclusion in Gerlach & Schenk’s Allegorien the year before he formed the Vienna Secession. While this design is similar to his other inclusions, L...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Jockey
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Chicago, IL
Color lithograph on Chine volant, 1899. Edition of aproximately 112. Printed by H. Stern, Paris. Published by Pierrefort, Paris.
Reference: Wittrock; 308-2nd edition, vol. 2, pg. 6...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Au Concert
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Chicago, IL
Commissioned by The Ault & Wiborg Co., USA. Color Zincograph on wove paper, 1896. Hand-signed in black crayon. Wittrock C (of C) edition.
Reference: Wittrock; P28, vol. 2 pg 810.
...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Partie de Campagne
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Chicago, IL
Color Lithograph on wove paper, 1896. Artist's orange-red and black signature stamps, numbered in pencil (#12), from edition of 100 published by A. Vollard in the 2nd "Album des esta...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Folio, plate #58: "Sculpture" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
As an artist trained in the applied arts, Gustav Klimt valued all forms of art, including the graphic arts. This final design from 1896 for inclusion in Allegorien published by Gerlach & Schenk demonstrates respect for artistic precedent and for a wide range of media and technique. The publication was printed in an unknown number of copies. Klimt’s rendering in latin of the title, “SCVLPTVR.,” with three-dimensional effect on the wall, is a figurative allusion to this medium as well as a literal reference to Ancient Rome. By doing the same with his signature and date in roman numerals on the right hand side of the image, Klimt places himself, The Artist, firmly in this linear and legitimizing context of art history and as its modern standard-bearer. Playing on Classical mythology and the story of Pygmalion, in which a statue comes to life, Klimt presents his modern Venus holding an apple. Klimt’s Venus exhibits a curvilinear softness; there are no angles. Klimt deftly shows the possibilities in a graphic image to give life to dark, wavy hair and tenderness to swelling breasts and belly. To further emphasize the allegory of thriving modern art, he contrasts his Venus with the cold, hard ancient classical head whose eyes are vacuous and whose hair is but a stylized mass of curls. Klimt’s living Venus stands in front of the large bust and large classical pillar upon which is a sculpture of a Sphinx and a Greek Attic bust. As if a gallery to represent sculpture’s “best of” through the ages, the upper horizontal panel includes bust depictions in marble, cast metal and wood...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien, plate #46: "Love" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Klimt’s association with Martin Gerlach dates back to the early 1880s when Gerlach and Schenk published their first edition of Allegorien und Embleme. By the mid-1890s, they were pla...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Female Relief Plaque
By Henri Cros
Located in Chicago, IL
HENRI CROS (1840-1907) Female Relief Plaque, polychrome enameled stoneware, c. 1895; signed in black ink verso: “H. Cros”, and a scrap of paper from A.A. Hebrard, Paris attached verso; measuring h: 11.25 x w: 9.38 inches. The symbolist bust in relief of a nude young woman with strawberry blonde hair is a depiction of pensive reverie. With lips slightly pursed, she is lost in thought, looking inward. The female visage hovering just over the nude’s shoulder, perhaps an allusion to a fountain, is by contrast flat and lifeless. With lips parted to reveal a watery blue orifice and wavy tresses of hair blending into a watery expanse, the purely decorative nature of the fountain’s face...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Gerlach's Allegorien Folio, plate #53: "Junius" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Contributors to Gerlach & Schenk’s publications valued design and innovation in the graphic arts just as much as they examined allegories as subject matter for exploration. Here, Gus...
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1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #83: "Seasons" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital f...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #85: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #93: "Science" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Astronomy, The Creation, The Lie" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Dance & Wine" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #114: "Vignettes" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #98: "Poetry" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #116: "Force, Thirst, Love" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #47: "Morning in the Spring" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #37: "Music" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art w...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #30: "Love" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art w...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #35: "Love & Wine" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #44: "Music" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #51: "Summer" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art w...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #75: "Hunting, Fishing, Rowing, Cycling"
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #89: "Bookplate Spring" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #94: "Heads" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #20: "Song, Love, Music, Dance" Lithograph
By Koloman Moser
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art w...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Art Nouveau Molten Glaze Vase by Raoul Lachenal
By Raoul Lachenal
Located in Chicago, US
The son of Edmond Lachenal, Raoul Lachenal worked in his father's studio until 1911, when he established a new workshop at Boulogne-sur-Seine. While some of Raoul Lachenal's Art Nouv...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Female Relief Plaque
By Henri Cros
Located in Chicago, US
HENRI CROS (1840-1907) Female Relief Plaque, polychrome enameled stoneware, c. 1895; signed in black ink verso: “H. Cros”, and a scrap of paper from A.A. Hebrard, Paris attached verso; measuring h: 11.25 x w: 9.38 inches.
The symbolist bust in relief of a nude young woman with strawberry blonde hair is a depiction of pensive reverie. With lips slightly pursed, she is lost in thought, looking inward. The female visage hovering just over the nude’s shoulder, perhaps an allusion to a fountain, is by contrast flat and lifeless. With lips parted to reveal a watery blue orifice and wavy tresses of hair blending into a watery expanse, the purely decorative nature of the fountain’s face...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Bramble Vase by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Clement Massier, Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Located in Chicago, US
Attributed to Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which in...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
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Earthenware
Art Nouveau Iridized Cobalt Vase by RStK Amphora
By Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel
Located in Chicago, US
Model #464. Similar example shown at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Ref: The House of Amphora, Scott; Pg 62.
Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked...
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Antique 1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Royal Starfish Charger by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Massier
By Clement Massier, Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Located in Chicago, US
Signed Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires ...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Art Nouveau Oxblood Vase with Bronze Snail Mount by Manufacture Nationale Sevres
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Chicago, US
The Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, established in 1756, had fallen on hard times by the late 19th century, with critics accusing the factory of a lack of creativity and imagination...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Bronze
Iridescent Art Nouveau Serpent Tendrils Vase by Clement Massier
By Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Flower Vase by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Attributed to Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which in...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Galaxy Vase by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Attributed to Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which in...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Art Nouveau Allegory of Germany Portrait Vase by Kannhäuser for RStK Amphora
By Reissner Stellmacher & Kessel, Nikolaus Kannhäuser
Located in Chicago, US
Model #2011
Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery fa...
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Antique 1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Frog Inkwell by Émile Müller
By Emile Müller
Located in Chicago, US
Émile Müller (21st september 1823 – 11th november 1889) was the architect of the workers housing estate in Mulhouse. He founded the “Grande Tuilerie” in Ivry Port (Seine), in 1854. A...
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Antique 1880s French Art Nouveau Inkwells
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Spider Mum Floral Motif Vase by Clement Massier
By Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires deep reflection and requires transparency. Clemen...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Spiderwebs & Berries Vase by Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Attributed to Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which in...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Leaves Vase by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Stamped Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
Literature: Coleman B., The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, 2004, p.213
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics i...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Gilded Art Nouveau Bat Swarm Vase by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Stamped Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Iridescent Art Nouveau Coral Vase by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Signed Lucien Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
Blue Leaf Iridescent Art Nouveau Vase by Lucien-Levy Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Clement Massier
Located in Chicago, US
Signed Lucien Levy Dhurmer & Clement Massier.
An encounter with Massier’s luster-glazed ceramics is an embarkation on an acid-colored trip, the sort of exploration which inspires de...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Earthenware
