German, 20th century, male.
Born 26 August 1882, in Berlin; died 4 July 1939, in Berlin.
Draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist, caricaturist.
Symbolism, Jugendstil.
Hermann Abeking was still very much influenced by the Jugendstil, and particularly by Aubrey Beardsley and Jan Toorop. He worked on several German magazines, including the ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1878, in Laupheim (Württemberg); died 1942, in Hamburg, during deportation.
Painter, stucco artist. Designs (metal objects/leather objects/jewellery).
Jugendstil.
Friedrich Adler studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich from 1894 to 1898, then became a pupil of the Debschitz Schule in Munich (the famous school founded by Wilhelm Debschitz and Hermann Obrist) as soon as it opened in ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Europe 1877-1881, and in Paris 1891-1901.
Born 7 October 1856, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; died 31 May 1915, in New York.
Painter, muralist, illustrator. Portraits, figures, landscapes.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
John White Alexander worked as an office boy for ...
(b The Hague, Jan 6, 1876; d The Hague, Dec 11, 1955).
Dutch sculptor and ceramicist. He trained at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague (1894–7) and in various sculpture studios. In 1898 he decorated the shop-front of the gallery Arts and Crafts in The Hague after a design by Johan Thorn Prikker, who advised him to set up on his own. From 1901 Altorf exhibited regularly and successfully; he was represented at the Prima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Decorativa Moderna in Turin in 1902, where he won a silver medal, and at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925.
Altorf was a leading exponent of Dutch Art Nouveau. His work is characterized by a strong simplification of form. It is often compared with that of Joseph Mendes da Costa but is somewhat more angular and austere. At first Altorf made mainly animal forms from various types of wood, ivory, bronze and ceramic. In firing his modelled figures, he worked with the ceramicist ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1874, in Hanau; died 1913, in Berlin.
Sculptor, worker in precious metals. Figures. Designs (ceramics/metal objects).
Jugendstil.
Adolf Amberg trained at the academy of fine arts in Berlin. He went to Paris and worked at the Académie Julian, exhibiting at the Salon of ...
(b Nancy, Aug 22, 1871; d Nancy, March 10, 1933).
French architect. His grandfather, François André (1811–1904), was a developer and his father, Charles André (1841–1928), became a county architect and was one of the organizers of the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Lorrains of 1894, which proved to be a prelude to the formation of the Ecole de Nancy seven years later. Emile André studied architecture with Victor Laloux at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1896 he travelled to the Nile with Gaston Munier (1871–1918), his friend and fellow student. On the advice of the French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan, they excavated the temple of Kom Ombo (154
Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 10 March 1871, in Waidhofen-am-Ybbs; died 19 May 1956, in Vienna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Genre scenes. Toys.
Art Nouveau.
Secession group.
Andri studied under Julius Berger and Edouard Lichtenfels at the Venice Academy, then, from 1892, under Claus Meyer at Karlsruhe Academy, before returning to settle in Venice. In ...
(b Boulogne-sur-Seine, May 3, 1870; d Paris, Aug 14, 1935).
French architect. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Paul-René-Léon Ginain and Louis-Henri-Georges Scellier de Gisors, receiving his architectural diploma in 1892. His early work included S. Bing’s Art Nouveau pavilion (destr.) at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 (inspired by Louis Bonnier’s initial project), blocks of flats in Paris in ashlar work, for example 236–238 Boulevard Raspail, 105 Rue Raymond Poincaré (both 1906) and the corner site of the Avenues du Bois de Boulogne et Malakoff (c. 1908), as well as regionalist constructions (garage in Neuilly and rural buildings in Herqueville and Heilly). He participated regularly in the competitions organized by the City of Paris, building low-cost housing schemes in the Rue Brillat-Savarin (1914–30) and the garden city at Chatenay-Malabry (1920–32) in collaboration with Joseph Bassompierre and Paul de Rutté. Following World War I he was named architect for the reconstruction schemes for the districts of Aisne and Pas-de-Calais....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 17 March 1885, in La Ferté-Vidame (Eure-et-Loir); died 1953.
Painter, ceramicist, glassmaker.
Art Nouveau.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau studied at the school of ceramics in Sèvres. He participated in the Salon d'Automne between 1920 and 1924, and exhibited glassware and enamel work at the Salon des Artistes Français in ...
Dutch company of art dealers and interior design and furniture workshop. The Arts and Crafts interior design and furniture workshop was set up in The Hague in 1893. The Art Nouveau character of the furniture produced by the workshop set it very much apart from its competitors. Designs were produced by the artist Johan Thorn Prikker and the architect Chris Wegerif (1859–1920). During the early years of the workshop the Belgian artist Henry van de Velde exercised a strong influence on its designs. After 1900 the designs became more austere, any Art Nouveau character being confined to woodwork and batik upholstery fabrics. In order to ensure the unity of each interior, an effort was made to have all the objects designed by the same artist. The workshop fostered a close relationship with The Hague school of painting.
F. Netscher: ‘Arts and Crafts’, De Hollandsche Revue (1902), p. 211...[Georges] (Hulot)
(b Beauvais, April 26, 1863; d Paris, Feb 6, 1938).
French illustrator, typographical designer, writer and printmaker . He went to Paris in 1883 to pursue a literary career. His first humorous essays were published that year in the Chat Noir journal. He was introduced to the many avant-garde artists and writers who frequented the Chat Noir cabaret in Montmartre and contributed to the journal. Of these Henri Rivière and Eugène Grasset were especially important to his artistic development, Rivière coaching Auriol in drawing while Grasset introduced him to typographical design. Auriol’s close association with Rivière culminated in the latter’s album of lithographs, Les Trente-six Vues de la Tour Eiffel (1902; for illustration see Japonisme), for which Auriol designed the decorative cover, end-papers and typography.
Auriol served as writer, illustrator and editor of the Chat Noir for ten years (1883–93). He produced book covers for the Chat-Noir Guide (1888) and the two-volume Les Contes du Chat Noir...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1863, in Beauvais; died c. 1938.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator.
Art Nouveau.
Together with Steinlen and Willette, among others, Georges Auriol belonged to the group of artists who frequented the cabaret Le Chat Noir. He also wrote songs and humorous whimsical pieces. In ...
Russian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born 10 May 1866, in St Petersburg; died 28 December 1924, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator. Portraits, nudes, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes. Stage sets, stage costumes, posters.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) group...
[Rosenberg, Lev (Samoylovich)]
(b Grodno, Belarus, May 10, 1866; d Paris, Dec 27, 1924).
Russian painter and stage designer of Belorussian birth. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, Bakst was educated in St Petersburg, attending a gymnasium and then the Academy of Arts (1883–6). He began professional life as a copyist and illustrator of teaching materials but quickly moved on to illustration for popular magazines. His tastes were influenced and horizons enlarged when he met Alexandre Benois and his circle in 1890. Bakst travelled regularly to various countries in Europe and North Africa and studied in Paris with a number of notable artists including the French Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Académie Julian and, from 1893 to 1896, the Finnish landscape painter Albert Edelfelt. Returning to St Petersburg, he became active as a book designer and fashionable portrait painter. With Benois and Serge Diaghilev he was a founder and leading member of the World of Art (Mir Iskusstva) group in 1898...
Hungarian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 16 April 1873, in Budapest.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist.
Art Nouveau.
Arpad Basch studied with Karlovsky in 1873 at the school of arts and crafts in Budapest, then in Munich with Hollósy, and in Paris with Léon Bonnat and Jean Paul Laurens....
(b Brussels, Sept 15, 1863; d Antwerp, March 6, 1927).
Belgian architect . He began his studies at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, studying monumental architecture in the evenings while working by day. His marriage to the daughter of the architect J.-B. Vereecken introduced him to wealthy bourgeois circles where he found most of his clients. Between 1894 and 1906 he took part in the construction of the Zurenborg district of Antwerp, begun at the instigation of Senator John Cogels, where he built 25 houses for the Société Anonyme pour la Construction du Quartier Est d’Anvers. This group of buildings constitutes one of the city’s architectural curiosities: it is dominated by historicism, particularly in the double residence Euterpia (1906) that is an example of neo-Greek bravura, but Bascourt also developed an original Art Nouveau style there, marked by echoes of Arabian architecture. His own house (1902; destr. 1986) in Antwerp was conceived in the spirit of the work of John Soane, designed around a central hall giving on to rooms that were each furnished and decorated in a different style. He built several mansions, office blocks and industrial buildings in Antwerp between ...
(b Palermo, Jan 31, 1857; d Palermo, Aug 26, 1932).
Sicilian architect, teacher and designer, son of Giovanni Battista Basile. Ernesto developed a peculiarly Sicilian version of Art Nouveau, making the city a centre of the Stile Liberty, the Italian version of that style, surpassed only by Turin and Milan. Although Ernesto’s architecture eclipsed that of his father, he dubbed him the ‘inventor of a new style’ and acknowledged his debt in training, ideas and opportunities. Ernesto’s career coincided with the years of greatest affluence for the upper middle classes in the orbit of the industrial Florio family’s financial empire in Palermo. Between 1890 and 1914 his architecture, combining traditionalism and nationalism, appealed to this class; it contained enough that was learned and traditional to flatter without overwhelming their cultural knowledge, and enough that was distinctively Sicilian to encourage their sense of self-importance. He succeeded to the chair of architecture at the University of Palermo in 1890.
Ernesto exploited the opportunity of the National Exhibition in Palermo in ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1863, in Abstatt bei Heilbronn; died 1919, in Schwäbischgmünd.
Engraver. Jewellery.
Jugendstil.
Hermann Bauer learned engraving with Peter Bruckmann in Heilbronn. He started his own jewellery company, Bauer & Jäger, in 1862.
Hase, Ulrike von: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österrreich. Symbolismus, Jugendstil, Neohistorismus...German, 20th century, male.
Born 1877, in Munich; died, died during World War I (1914-1918).
Worker in precious metals, metal worker, engraver. Jewellery.
Jugendstil.
Karl Johann Bauer learned metalwork, then worked in Munich for Rothmüller, Lohr & Steinicken. He also took lessons at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. He taught metalwork at the Debschitz Schule, a school of applied art in Munich founded by Wilhelm Debschitz and Hermann Obrist in ...
(Vincent )
(b Brighton, Aug 21, 1872; d Menton, March 16, 1898).
English draughtsman and writer. He was brought up in Brighton, in genteel poverty, by his mother. She gave her children an intensive education in music and books, and by the time he was sent to boarding-school at the age of seven Beardsley was exceptionally literate and something of a musical prodigy. He was also already infected with the tuberculosis that eventually killed him. There is evidence that his talent for drawing was highly developed by the age of ten, and he was subsequently encouraged by his housemaster at Brighton Grammar School, Arthur William King. Beardsley left school at the end of 1888, and in January 1889 became a clerk at the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company in the City of London. Attacks of haemorrhaging of the lungs forced him to abandon his job at the end of 1889. On the strength of a short story sold to Tit Bits...
