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closer look at Govora Baths in Romania. Art Nouveau.

Govora Baths in Romania will shine again thanks to EU Funds

The mineral springs resort of Băile Govora in southwestern Romania is working to transform itself yet again into an attractive tourist destination. The resort, which was very popular with local tourists before 1989, has attracted EU funds to refurbish its urban infrastructure and one of the hotels. The re-opening date is still uncertain but it […]

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art nouveau exhibition Beyond Klimt Brussels.

Beyond Klimt in Brussels – from Sept.21 to Jan.20, 2019

Exactly 100 years after the death the fathers of the Viennese Secession (Klimt, Schiele, Moser and Wagner), the exhibition Beyond Klimt investigates the dense exchange of ideas that led to the emergence of avant-garde movements such as surrealism, expressionism, new realism, constructivism, Bauhaus. On show there are works of about 80 artists, besides Klimt and Schiele

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Facade of Otto Wagner's Majolica House in Wien. Amazing flowers.

The Art Nouveau gem of Vienna overtakes Melbourne as the world’s most liveable city

Vienna, the capital of Austria and a very special Art Nouveau city of Europe, has been ranked as the most liveable city in the world, according to a new survey carried out by The Economist. Other Art Nouveau cities appear in the ranking, in the following positions: Helsinki (16), Paris (19), Brussels (29), Barcelona and Lyon

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Art nouveau in 1900 had Paris in its center. Tour Eiffel.

Paris 1900: City of Entertainment – in Tennessee starting in October 12

After summer you can plan a trip to Tennessee to visit the exhibition “Paris 1900: City of Entertainment” at Frist Art Museum. This exhibition will allow you to relive the splendor of the French capital at the Belle Époque times of the Paris Universal Exhibition, when millions visited the site of the International Exposition. At that time Paris

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Location of the Liberty exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2018.

Liberty: Art Fabrics & Fashion – in Edinburgh until January 12, 2018

The exhibition opens to the public today at the Dovecot Gallery in Edinburgh and presenting more than 100 Liberty items. It is part of a touring exhibition originally presented at the Fashion & Textile Museum in London with the aim to celebrate how textiles bring art into everyday life. Liberty’s fashion aesthetic had a great

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partial image of the yellow poster of the exhibition School of Nancy. Art Nouveau & Art Industry, in 2022.

School of Nancy. Art Nouveau & Art Industry – until September 3, 2018  

The exhibition was designed by the Museum of the School of Nancy and illustrates the innovative nature of this living environment, where the most modern technical processes of the time were implemented to produce furniture and objects both functional, with an unprecedented aesthetic, and within reach of all budgets. The main ambition of L’École de Nancy

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Victor Pierre Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. He was a fervent admirer of the French architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels, often considered the first Art Nouveau house, is based on the work of Viollet-le-Duc.

Victor Horta’s Imaginary Journey to Havana – Brussels until Sept. 16

The exhibition “Horta’s Imaginary Journey to Havana”, a mirror exhibition of the one presented in La Havana this spring, is presented at the Horta Museum in Brussels until September 16. The Wallonia Region has organised this exhibition composed of drawings by teenagers from the workshop of Barcelona-La Havana Space that took place in Brussels in

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The Slav Epic is a series of twenty monumental canvases (the largest measuring over 6 by 8 metres) depicting the history of the Slavic people. All painted by Alphons Mucha.

Alphonse Mucha’s 20 Slav Epic artworks exhibited from tomorrow in Prague and Brno

Two weeks ago we confirmed that Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic collection had finally found a permanent home in Prague. From 2021 the 20 artworks will be exhibited permanently inside Lapidarium, a 19th-century Art Nouveau building that has been abandoned for decades. Click HERE to read the news we published. All 20 Slav Epic canvases will be presented from

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Brussels art nouveau style is to be found in many buildings such as this one. Ondulated forms are common.

Victor Horta and Brussels – CIVA – exhibit until the end of 2018

This exhibition, organised by the Directorate of Monuments and Sites in the Brussels Capital Region and open until December 31 of 2018 in the CIVA, provides an overall introduction to the work of architect Victor Horta with a presentation of his major works built in Brussels. John Julius Norwich described him as “undoubtedly the key European

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Art nouveau paintings from Alphonse Mucha can be very popular and sensual, but the Slav Epic works are awesome and seriously historical.

Finally Mucha is getting the respect that he and his works deserve

Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic collection has finally found a permanent home in Prague. The City Hall has approved that these fantastic works will be exhibited permanently inside Lapidarium, a 19th-century Art Nouveau building that has been abandoned for decades. The new gallery is set to cost around 22 million Euros and open by 2021. Mucha said

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