German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 April 1868, in Hamburg; died 27 February 1940, in Berlin.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, architect, designer, decorative artist, graphic designer. Posters, furniture, wallpaper, carpets, glassware, ceramics, table services, jewellery, silverwork, objets d'art, typefaces.
Jugendstil, functional school.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven), Deutscher Werkbund...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 6 March 1866, in Flensburg; died 5 January 1945, in Wiesbaden.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorative designer, graphic designer. Portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes, still-lifes, flowers, decorative motifs. Designs for carpets, designs (furniture/posters/jewellery/book-binding).
Jugendstil.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven)...
German, 19th century, male.
Born 19 November 1865, in Hamburg; died 11 June 1902, in Badenweiler.
Painter, decorative artist, illustrator, engraver, designer, ceramicist, textile designer. Portraits, landscapes, flowers. Designs for stained glass, designs for tapestries, ex-libris plates, advertising posters, fabrics, ceramics, metal objects, ironware, lamps, furniture, typefaces, jewellery, wallpaper...
German, 20th century, male.
Active then naturalised in 1918 in Austria.
Born 27 July 1881, in Wunsiedel (Upper Franconia); died 1965, in Vienna.
Painter, engraver (wood), draughtsman, illustrator, lithographer, watercolourist, illustrator. Figures, animals. Designs for carpets, designs (wallpapers).
Jugendstil.
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich in 1896, and then, after his family moved to Austria, at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna in 1899, under the supervision of Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger. In Vienna, he worked for various design companies, producing designs for wallpaper and similar work, and starting his collaboration with the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Studio) in 1903. Around 1906, he completed his training at the Vienna Akademie der Bildenden Künste in graphic art, where he learned engraving with William Unger. He taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Frankfurt from 1911. He was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund. He formed a friendship with Egon Schiele and Kokoschka. He obtained Austrian nationality in 1918 and, between 1921 and 1930, travelled regularly to Italy, visiting Rome, Naples and Sicily. The Nazis banned him from practising his art and subjected him to persecution. He withdrew to Split in 1938. On returning to Austria in 1952, he was rehabilitated and received the title of professor, and his art was acclaimed....
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 25 October 1865, in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland); died 24 July 1908, in Schlachtensee (Berlin).
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, decorative designer, writer. Landscapes, landscapes with figures, waterscapes. Posters, designs for carpets, designs for tapestries, designs (wallpapers/book-binding)...
Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 9 October 1861, in Schaerbeek (Brussels); died 4 October 1936, in Schaerbeek.
Painter, draughtsman, lithographer, poster artist, ceramicist, designer. Figure compositions, figures, portraits, nudes, scenes with figures. Stage sets, designs for fabrics, advertising art.
Art Nouveau...
(b Lausanne, Nov 10, 1859; d Paris, Dec 13, 1923).
French illustrator, printmaker, painter and sculptor, of Swiss birth. After studying at the University at Lausanne and working as an apprentice designer in a textile factory in Mulhouse, Steinlen arrived in Paris in 1881 and quickly established himself in Montmartre, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. In 1883 the illustrator Adolphe Willette introduced him to the avant-garde literary and artistic environment of the Chat Noir cabaret which had been founded in 1881 by another Swiss expatriot, Rodolphe Salis. Steinlen soon became an illustrator of its satirical and humorous journal, Chat noir, and an artistic collaborator with writers such as Emile Zola, poets such as Jean Richepin, composers such as Paul Delmet, artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and, most important, the singer and songwriter Aristide Bruant, all of whom he encountered at the Chat Noir. Bruant’s lyrics incorporate the argot of the poor, the worker, the rogue, the pimp and the prostitute, for whom Steinlen’s empathy had been awakened on reading Zola’s novel ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 11 September 1866, in Düsseldorf; died 27 July 1939, in Munich.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, watercolourist, illustrator. Genre scenes. Designs for carpets, caricatures, designs (fabrics/wallpapers/medals).
Symbolism, Jugendstil.
Carl Strathmann studied at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf from 1882 to 1886 then at the Weimar school under the direction of Leopold von Kalckreuth from 1886 to 1889. He followed his teacher to Munich and there met Lovis Corinth and his circle. He became part of the Secession and joined the Deutscher Werkbund towards 1912. Admired as a painter, this artist should be seen in the Symbolist and Jugendstil context. He handled decorative shapes with admirable rhythm, was more than a technical illusionist, and sometimes encrusted his paintings with bright splashes of coloured glass or stone. His favourite themes were women and a certain sexual freedom, or anything of the strange or decadent. His most famous painting is ...
