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Giuseppe Sommaruga, a great architect in Milan, Italy.

Giuseppe Sommaruga Year – Palazzo Castiglioni (10 best pics)

This year Italy and Milan celebrate “The Giuseppe Sommaruga Year” to celebrate the 100 years that passed since the year he died. He is recognised as the most important architect of the Liberty Style, the name of the Art nouveau movement in Italy. Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867–1917) lived half a Century which was not a short life at that […]

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Mackintosh Glasgow - art nouveau news

Mackintosh Festival, Glasgow, October, 2017

Throughout October 2017, the sixth annual Mackintosh Festival will celebrate the achievements of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, designer and artist. This year’s month-long festival starts on Sunday October 1 and has an extensive programme of events will take place in Glasgow Mackintosh venues with a focus on architecture, design, visual arts and crafts. You

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Alphonse Mucha drawing of a poster in the Dayton exhibition.

Exhibit Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau – Dayton, until 31/12

Until December 31st 2017 you can enjoy a selection of works by Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) in the Dayton Art Institute, Ohio. Presented are 75 works including rare original lithographs and proofs; 1 oil painting; 8 drawings; 1 pastel; and books, posters, portfolios and ephemera. Color lithographies were introduced in the 1890s by Jules Chéret, the “father of the modern poster“,

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Amphora design - art nouveau.

What does Amphora mean in the Art Nouveau history?

Amphora refers to some delicate pottery produced between 1894 and 1904 in the Turn-Teplitz region of Bohemia during the Art Nouveau times. These ceramic wares were produced between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries and are also referred to by dealers and collectors as “Teplitz”. There were many companies manufacturing ceramic wares in the Amphora movement,

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Cemetery of Budapest, Hungary. It has some nice examples of secession art.

The Art Nouveau cemetery of Budapest opens for our tours

From now on, the travellers booking our “Complete Budapest Art Nouveau private tour” will also visit the Jewish  Kozma Street Cemetery in the 10th district of Budapest. Until now, it was not open to organised private tours, making it very difficult to explore. The graves, mausoleums and shrines are excellent imprints of the Jewish culture and the

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Located on famous Wenceslas Square, home to revolutions and protests, sits the grand Hotel Evropa. This Art Nouveau beauty was built in 1889 under the name At the Archduke Stephan, but between 1903 and 1905, architects Bedrich Bendelmayer and Alois Dryak rebuilt the structure in the Art Nouveau style with Bohumil Hubschman, Jan Letzel and Ladislav Saloun designing the gorgeous interior.

Prague To Welcome a W Hotel in an Art Nouveau building in 2019

A W Hotel will open in Prague in November, 2019. It will be a renovation of the former Grand Evropa Hotel, a beautiful Art Nouveau style building. The historic structure will be combined with a modern new building to create a stunning blend of old world glamour and bold, contemporary design. This Art Nouveau beauty located on famous Wenceslas

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Bilek's house and workshop at Mickiewiczova ulice, 1. Built by Bilek, 1912

The Lordְ’s Prayer, exceptional exhibit by Bílek & Mucha – Prague

The Lordְ’s Prayer is the title of this small-scale exhibition of drawings and prints presents two different approaches to the seminal Christian prayer by two exceptional artists, each of whom left an inimitable individual imprint in Czech art. The artists are the sculptor, František Bílek (1872-1941), the foremost Czech exponent of the Art Nouveau symbolist style,

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György Ráth Villa houses the permanent exhibition Art Nouveau – a Hungarian Perspective, displaying the finest selection of the Museum of Applied Arts’ Art Nouveau collection.

Museum of Applied Arts closes 3rd September for a half a decade restoration project – Budapest

The Museum Of Applied Arts (IMM) in Budapest, one of the most beautiful example of the Hungarian Art Nouveau, will close its door as soon as the 3rd of September 2017 for a period of up to 5 years* due to restoration. Incredible that it could sound, it won’t be until 2022 that it opens again with

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