The originality of Catalan Modernisme is the result of an apparent contradiction between tradition and modernity. It represented the re-examination of Catalonia’s own history and traditions by a society that wanted to be cosmopolitan and modern. During the decade of the 1890s, architects and designers revived the past with styles which were simultaneously medieval, archaic… Read more »
The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is delighted to announce the opening of memberships to its association to individual members.The annual membership fee amounts to 50 Euros and will give new advantages to the RANN Friends.
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the RANN, urban.brussels, founding member of RANN, is hosting an international symposium in Brussels, co-organised by RANN and urban.brussels in partnership with the Horta Museum and CIVA, on the theme “Interiors of the Art Nouveau period : analyse, restore, make accessible”.
To celebrate this event, RANN and its members are preparing activities that will take place throughout the year: a special World Art Nouveau Day, an international conference, a new website… More information soon.Picture: RANN’s logo © Réseau Art Nouveau Network
The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is delighted to announce that it has been approved for certification as a Council of Europe Cultural Route by the Governing Board of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes (EPA), following the final defense which took place on 11 April 2014 in Luxembourg. Through numerous activities (travelling exhibitions, colloquiums, publications, activities for children…),… Read more »
You are an owner of an Art Nouveau building in Brussels or Art Nouveau lover and you have archives pictures/contemporary pictures of interiors of Art Nouveau buildings in Brussels? Then we invite you to participate to a collaborative project in order to enrich a new website entitled “Inside Art Nouveau” enabling the visitors in the… Read more »
The Nature of Art Nouveau reveals the role that nature had in the Art Nouveau and how much it was the source of inspiration for the artists at the turn of 19th to 20th century. Conceived by the Catalan art historian Teresa-M. Sala, The Nature of Art Nouveau is an exhibition based on both encyclopedic information and individual… Read more »
The Nature of Art Nouveau reveals the role that nature had in the Art Nouveau and how much it was the source of inspiration for the artists at the turn of 19th to 20th century. Conceived by the Catalan art historian Teresa-M. Sala, The Nature of Art Nouveau is an exhibition based on both encyclopedic information and individual… Read more »
Sustainable protection and promotion of Art Nouveau heritage in the Danube Region The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is glad to take part to this ambitious project as a technical associated partner! Throughout the Danube region, Art Nouveau is a defining feature of many urban landscapes. Art Nouveau movement in this area mainly stemmed from the… Read more »
At the Threshold of a New Era The complex development and re-foundation of the Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest Opened in 1896, the museum building is one of the chief works of visionary architect Ödön Lechner, who created a new style in architecture. Unfortunately, the building was severely damaged during the wars of the twentieth… Read more »
Fabric and wallpaper in Brussels houses Art Nouveau was a very significant period for the creation of wallpaper and fabrics. Inside Art Nouveau buildings, both Victor Horta and his contemporaries gave meaning to the concept of total art and revolutionised the applied arts, abolishing the hierarchy between different forms of plastic art. Original motifs, complex… Read more »
This new interpretation center aims to offer visitors a wider range of explanations for all audiences (ages 7 to 77) of all nationalities. An animated movie, freely inspired by Monty Python, tells the life and work of Victor Horta.Archival images will come to life in a sometimes offbeat universe, sometimes faithful to the master’s one.… Read more »
This A listed building is internationally recognised as the only surviving Tea Rooms designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and where he had complete control over both the interior and exterior design. It is also regarded as one of the finest examples in the world of a complete Art Nouveau scheme. The building has undergone extensive… Read more »
After several years of closure, the György Ráth Villa of the Museum of Applied Arts (1068 Budapest, Városligeti fasor 12.) can be visited again from 14 September 2018, where a new permanent exhibition titled Art Nouveau – a Hungarian Perspective, displaying the finest selection of the Museum of Applied Arts’ Art Nouveau collection, can be visited.… Read more »
Hôtel Aubecq is one of Victor Horta’s finest achievements, as regards both the built result and the relationship that the architect had with the client, Octave Aubecq, throughout the conception of the project. Aubecq was authoritarian and peremptory, Horta stubborn and clever: both men hit it off wonderfully! Hôtel Aubecq was sold in 1948 with… Read more »
New horizons in Central Europe, 1914-1938 The end of WWI and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also meant the revival of major developments in the art world. Political and economic shifts led to artistic migrations, new ideas and perspectives and new artistic networks sprang up all over the place. Artists met up in arts centres and international… Read more »
Monet · Van Gogh · Klimt The 2018 autumn exhibition in the Kunstforum is devoted to “Japomanie” – the West’s passion for the aesthetics and world of images of the Far East. The exhibition traces its development, starting with the fascination for the exotic and the new and the first stirrings in the 1860s to… Read more »
In the Koloman Moser-anniversary year, the Theatermuseum exhibits previously little known stage creations of this versatile “jack of all trades”. In addition to the overall show in the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Moser’s works for the intimate cabaret stage as well as the grand opera set will be presented, like for… Read more »
The making of a collection “[…] I think it may be time for at least one painting to be hanging at the St.-G. [Staatsgalerie].” Egon Schiele to his friend and patron Arthur Roessler, 21 June 1916 His wish would be fulfilled as there are now a total of twenty works by Egon Schiele in the Belvedere’s… Read more »
ON THE OCCASION OF GRAND DUKE ERNST LUDWIG’S 150TH BIRTHDAY From October 21, 2018 to February 24, 2019, the Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt will celebrate the 150th birthday of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine with an exhibition in the Ernst Ludwig House, today’s Artists’ Colony Museum. The exhibition will not be biographical… Read more »
Hidden Treasures shines the spotlight on central works from the Leopold Museum which have not been exhibited for a long time due to their precarious state of preservation. The presentation affords exciting insights into the many facets of the collection, which includes paintings by Tina Blau, Kolo Moser and Anton Kolig, graphic works by Lovis… Read more »
The Leopold Museum houses the world’s largest and most eminent compilation of works by Egon Schiele as well as an equally unique collection of masterpieces of Viennese art around 1900. The exhibition KLIMT – MOSER – GERSTL showcases select works by the main exponents of Viennese Jugendstil, Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser, as well as… Read more »
The Advertising Boom. Tin, cardboard and tile posters. 1890-1950 The exhibition is a tour, from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, through graphic commercial advertising dedicated especially to the promotion of everyday products: food, wines and cavas, pharmaceuticals, care products, tobacco, machines etc. Besides popular paper posters, the exhibition… Read more »
