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Jugendstil / Art Nouveau

Jugendstil is the variant in the German-speaking countries of an important pan-European art movement at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Jugendstil embraces all fields of art and especially the decorative and applied arts. Under the various names by which the movement went (Art Nouveau, the Modern Style, Modernismo, stile Liberty in Italy, the Viennese Secession), Jugendstil was equally important in virtually all European countries and the US, with the style varying from country to country. The salient characteristics of Jugendstil are decoratively sinuous line as well as floral surface ornament. Jugendstil stood for designing the entire living environment as a work of art. Consequently, a building was to be informed by a uniform design principle from the architecture to the appointments and furnishings of the interior to achieve a fusion of art and life. Utilitarian objects in everyday use were redesigned in accordance with this agenda. The focus was on the decorative and applied arts. In the years between 1895 and 1900 Jugendstil rebelled against the replication of historically traditional forms and symmetries as models but was certainly not a unified movement despite what the term may imply today. The Jugendstil agenda embraced numerous artistic platforms and manifestoes, a demand for functionalism coupled with expression. Jugendstil in Germany grew out of regional and local movements which did not arrive at a supraregional exchange of ideas until some years later, promoted by a bevy of new art journals, including "Simplicissimus" in Munich and "Pan" in Berlin. The German movement took its name from "Jugend" magazine that was launched in Munich in May 1896. The leading exponents of Jugendstil internationally in various fields of art are:
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas (1849-1921)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
Samuel Bing (1838-1905)
William Bradley (1868-1962)
Edouard Colonna (1862-1948)
Jules Chéret (1836-1932)
Hans Christiansen (1866-1945)
Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach (1861-1918)
Daum Frères: Jean Daum (1853-1909) und Antonin Daum (1864-1930)
Martin Dülfer (1859-1942)
Otto Eckmann (1865-1902)
August Endell (1871-1925)
Georges de Feure (1868-1943)
Georges Fouquet (1862-1957)
Eugène Gaillard (1862-1933)
Lucien Gaillard (1861-1933)
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
Eugène Grasset (1845-1917)
Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
Ludwig Habich (1872-1949)
Paul Hankar (1859-1901)
Hermann Hirzel (1864-1939)
Josef Hofmann (1870-1956)
Victor Horta (1861-1947)
Patriz Huber (1878-1902)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Max Klinger (1857-1920)
Karl Koepping (1848-1914)
René Lalique (1860-1945)
Walter Leistikow (1865-1908)
Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
Adolf Loos (1870-1933)
Louis Majorelle (1859-1926)
Bruno Möhring (1863-1929)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Koloman Moser (1869-1918)
Alfons Mucha (1860-1939)
Hermann Obrist (1862-1927)
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908)
Bernhard Pankok (1872-1943)
Bruno Paul (1874-1968)
Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957)
Hugo Schaper (1844-1915)
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1858-1910)
Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923)
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
Eugène Vallin (1856-1922)
Henry van de Velde (1863-1957)
Henri Vever (1854-1942)
Paul Vever (1851-1915)
Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942)
Otto Wagner (1841-1918)
Philippe Wolfers (1858-1929)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

Sold lots

Schiele, Egon

Sale 280 - June 06, 03
Lot 26
Watercolour 1911
736,000 EUR / 1,008,320 $ sold
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Putz, Leo

Sale 300 - June 02, 06
Lot 307
Oil on canvas 1922
187,200 EUR / 256,464 $ sold
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Cucuel, Edward

Sale 277 - Dec. 06, 02
Lot 34
Oil on canvas 1911
69,000 EUR / 94,530 $ sold
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Cucuel, Edward

Sale 277 - Dec. 06, 02
Lot 37
Oil on canvas 1920
57,500 EUR / 78,775 $ sold
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Ury, Lesser

Sale 306 - Dec. 05, 06
Lot 103
Pastel 1911
57,120 EUR / 78,254 $ sold
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Ury, Lesser

Sale 345 - June 04/05., 08
Lot 108
Pastel 1920
55,200 EUR / 75,624 $ sold
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Ury, Lesser

Sale 345 - June 04/05., 08
Lot 174
Pastel 1925
45,600 EUR / 62,472 $ sold
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Walde, Alfons

Sale 306 - Dec. 05, 06
Lot 126
Mixed media 1919
30,940 EUR / 42,387 $ sold
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Mappenwerk

Sale 315 - June 12, 07
Lot 133
Drawing 1915
26,400 EUR / 36,168 $ sold
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Stuck

Sale 290 - May 14, 04
Lot 121
Bronze 1897
22,230 EUR / 30,455 $ sold
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