Art Nouveau/Catalogs

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One of the interesting features of the movement known as Art Nouveau is that it occurred at time of great interest in 'socialism' (in its broadest 19th century sense as a contrast term to 'individualism'). As a result, alongside the creation of individual artists and traditional ataliers (artists workshops) in Art Nouveau, there was a substantial formation of other civil society organizations - specialized production units, movements, groups, clubs, networks, alliances and many other types of organized activity quite unlike anything else in art history. Here is a partial list of some of those organizations, garnered from a variety of publications on art history. (A similar list has been prepared for the Arts and Crafts movement which saw a similar -- and to some degree overlapping -- burst of organization during roughly the same time period.

This catalog will include the city/location, founder, mission, foundation and terminal dates, and citations for each organization.

• Art Furniture Alliance [r]: 'Art industry' retail sales outlet which opened in London in 1880 and closed in a short time. Specialized in the sale of furniture, metalware, and other decorative artifacts embodying strong Aesthetic values; created by Christopher Dresser (Scottish designer, botanist and writer. Born Glasgow, July 4, 1834; died Mulhouse, Alsace, Nov 24, 1904). Attendants in the store wore aesthetic dress. ^[e]
• Artist's Colony, Darmstadt [r]: A group of artists as well as a set of residential buildings erected in the Mathildenhöhe neighborhood in Darmstadt. The colony was established in 1899 by the Grand Duke of Hesse and included several artist's houses and worker housing at its zenith prior to World War I. ^[e]
• Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society [r]: This group, from which the Arts and Crafts movement took its name, was founded in London in 1887 and, beginning in 1888, held its exhibitions at the New Gallery in Regent Street. ^[e]
• Art Workers Guild [r]: Formed in the 1880s by the merger of the architects of St. George's Art Society and The Fifteen, a group of designers and decorative artists. It's purposes were to bring together a wider range of Handicraftsmen and Designers, provide practical demonstrations for members and exhibitions, and offer a forum for papers and discussion to encourage "The Unity of Art." ^[e]
• Associated Workshops for Art in Handicraft, Munich [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Austrian Association of Applied Artists [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bauhaus [r]: The Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus in German) was an internationally-known German art school in Weimar, Germany, founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919 that combined fine arts and crafts in design and that sought to combine artistic vision with mass production, and to integrate aesthetic values into everyday life. It was closed in 1933 after Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, although it continues to exercise influence in international design, aesthetics and product design. ^[e]
• Berlin Succession [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Café Griensteidl (p. 337)
• Century Guild
• Chicago School of Architecture
• Dresden Werkstätten
• Deutsche Werkstätten Dresden-Hellerau
• Hof-Atalier Elvira
• Folkvang Museum, Hagen
• Galerie L' Art Nouveau
• Galeria degli Ambienti
• Glasgow School of Art
• Gorki Museum
• Grand-Ducal Museum, Weimar
• Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Art, Weimar
• Guild and School of Handicrafts
• Hagenbund
• Hagengeselleschaft
• Haida Technical College
• Home Arts and Industries Association
• Jugendstil
• Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Berlin
• La Toison d'Or art salon
• Loetz' Witwe manufactory
• Modernisme
• Modernista
• Modernism
• New Succession
• Palau de la Musica Catalona
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Royal Dolton Pottery
• School of Nancy
• Succession, Berlin
• Succession, Free
• Succession, Munich
• Succession, New
• Succession, Vienna
• St. George's Guild
• Symbolism
• Taliesen
• Tiffany Studios
• Ultiéme Hallucinate, cafe-restaurant
• Verein Bildender Künstler Östereich (Austrian Association of Applied Artists)
• Vereinte Kunstegewerbler, Darmstadt
• Werkbund, Deutscher
• Werkbund, Östereicher
• Wiener Werkstätt
• William Morris and Co
• Wood Handicraft Society
• Worpswede Artists Colony
• Worpswede Workshop
• Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik
• Werkstätten für deutschen Hausrat (Workshops for German Household Goods)
• Werkstätten für Wohnungseinrichtungen, München (Munich Workshops for Interior Furnishings)