Jugendstil – 1880-1910 , Art Nouveau- 1880-1910

Jugendstil – 1880-1910

The Jugendstil is a style which was emerged in Germany during the 1890’s it translates as ‘Youth Style’. The Jugendstil features a lot the Art Nouveau designs. The name of Jugendstil was named after the journal Die Jugend in the 1896 1914 which it publicized the style.  By  reforming some  ideas  from  different designser such  as John Ruskin and William Morris the Jugendstil  designer  which were  Hermann Obrist , Richard Riemerschmid and also August Endell were  the most  designers  that had  the idealistic aims which proponed  the Art Nouveau style in Europe.

The designers  of Jugendstil were more in the case to capture  the dynamism  and  also  the energetic organic growth  which we  find them in their  work.

Otto Eckmann - Stoneware Vase with bronze mount                       ART NOUVEAU VASE IN METAL                                

1900 – Jugendstil                                                                                             ARMATURE

Comments:  These pictures are to show the similarity of the Art Nouveau and also the Jugendstil we cans see that  even though the style are  in the same dates  they have some  differences. In my observation I can see that the Jugendstil vase  is more  with a pointed shape where the Art Nouveau vase  is  based  more  on  rounded  shape. I prefer more the Art Nouveau vase because it looks also more modern.   

Jugendstil

Jugendstil | artistic style | Encyclopedia Britannica. 2015. Jugendstil | artistic style | Encyclopedia Britannica. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1241656/Jugendstil. [Accessed 25 January 2015].

Author: Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Title of the Book: Design of the 20 th century, Published: Taschen, Page 367- 372 - Jugendstil

Art Nouveau- 1880-1910

 Art Nouveau was a movement that swept through the architecture and also decorative arts, which were in the late 19^th and early 20^th century, which it also was a historical style that emerged during the year 1880s. The Art Nouveau Movement was inspired from the Arts and Crafts Movement which was sometimes known as the New Art. 

We can also see that during the 1890s, Charles Rennie mackintosh and designers that were associated with the Vienna Secession, such as Josef Maria Olbrich which these introduced the abstracted naturalistic forms to the design that were curvilinear, while Herman Obrist and August Endell  pioneered the use of the whiplash motifs.

Art Nouveau had one of the greatest exponents which was a Belgian architect Victor Hota. One of the first expressions of the style in architecture was the Hotel Tassel 1892-1893. 

                                                     Stairway of Tassel House, Brussels

The designer used the stem-like columns that where branched into the swirling tendrils which led to the coining of the term “Horta Line”. This was the residential project which it innovatively and incorporated the ironwork as both structural and decorative.  The style in France became known as “Style Guimard”,Hector Guimard was employed in recognition of the writing and  intertwined forms. He was most notably for his cast-iron entrances to the Paris metro (c1900). In Germany the name Jugenstil was adopted where the terms of the “Le Style Moderne” was used and identifies the Art Nouveau.

Antonio Gaudi Y Cornet and his followers in Spain in flourished the Art Nouveau style, especially in Catalonia, where the term Modernisme was used. In Italy “Stile Liberty” replaced the term, where the name originated because the London department store “Liberty and Co” promoted the style.

Emile Galle which is another designer that is associated with the Ecole de Nancy produced notable furniture and also glassware in the Art Nouveau style. We also can see that the sinuous lines and also the elongation of the floral forms are readily identified in Art Nouveau which were directly inspired by the natural world rather the past styles. The bulbous of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s were abstract which the vases were captured the very essence of nature.  

The designers of the 1890s looked at the nature for the inspiration which the reason for it was that it had to do much with the earlier scientific research into the working of the natural world such as Darwin’s treatise “or the origin pf species” which was published in the 1859, the botanical illustrations of Ernst Haeckel 1834-1919 and also the exquisite photographic flower studies which were taken by Karl Blossfeldt 1865-1932 in the late 19^th century. 

                                     Emile Galle Cameo Vase with autumn crocus decoration, 1899

Art Nouveau

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Author: Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Title of the Book : Design of the 20 th century, Published: Taschen, Page 55-60- Art Nouveau