Architecture or Jewelry? Josef Hoffmann’s Modern Brooches
Josef Hoffman was the leading architect of the Secession and pupil of Otto Wagner, close friend and collaborator of Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser,...
Magda Michalska 2 May 2022
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau Explained
Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite. It spread...
Errika Gerakiti 25 April 2022
Ethel Reed – When a Meteor Crossed the Night Sky of Art Nouveau
If you’ve heard of Ethel Reed, you are probably either a devotee of late-19th century American poster art or an art history student. After the...
Wen Gu 31 March 2022
Painting Human Desire for Happiness – Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
When we think of Gustav Klimt we imagine beautiful portraits of women, sensual and dangerous compositions, gold and decorative motifs. However, if...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 March 2022
House with Chimaeras: Facts and Legends About an Unusual Art Nouveau Building in Kyiv
House with Chimaeras (or Horodecki House) is one of the most extraordinary buildings in Ukraine from the Modernist era. Its asymmetrical structure is...
Nataliia Pecherska 5 March 2022
Wiener Werkstätte: The Viennese Design Brand You’ve Always Dreamt Of
Heard of Bauhaus? Yes. Heard of De Stijl? Yes. Heard of Wiener Werkstätte? No. No?! That’s the problem: I hadn’t heard of Wiener...
Magda Michalska 21 February 2022
Gustav Klimt’s Lost and Found Viennese Beauty – Lady with Fan
Fräuleins (Ladies), step aside! This steaming-hot brunette is back in town! After 100 years of captivity, away from the Viennese public, she...
Giordana Goretti 21 February 2022
Why Are Cigarettes So Sexy? A Story of Art Nouveau Posters
Just to make it clear: smoking is bad. But… why do all those people look so sexy with cigarettes? Like Marlene Dietrich with her cigarette holder,...
Magda Michalska 13 February 2022
5 Facts You Need to Know about Gustav Klimt
Do you know Gustav Klimt? This Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession combined highly refined...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 January 2022
Art Nouveau: 10 Most Beautiful Buildings in the World
With so many options to choose from, it is hard to narrow down a list of the most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings in the world. So here’s a...
Rachel Witte 25 January 2022
Art Nouveau’s Unsung Female Artists
Art Nouveau, the movement that flourished between 1890 and 1910, developed at the apex of Belle Époque, the period which encouraged modernity and...
Anastasia Tsaleza 25 January 2022
Aubrey Beardsley: Sharp Blacks and Whites of the Victorian Era
Aubrey Beardsley was an extremely talented draughtsman of the Victorian era. As a young boy he suffered from tuberculosis yet decided to live his...
Magda Michalska 25 January 2022
