13 Facts About Jugendstil

Jugendstil was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910.

Jugendstil combined floral decoration and sinuous curves with more geometric lines, and soon was used for covers of novels, advertisements, and exhibition posters.

Darmstadt Artists' Colony is a remarkable collection of Jugendstil buildings created beginning in 1899 by Ernest Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and grandson of Queen Victoria, to promote both commerce and the arts.

Jugendstil brought together a group of designers to create his new community, including Peter Behrens, Hans Christiansen, and Joseph Maria Olbrich.

Jugendstil was a known in Germany for his work in Belgium and Paris, and began a new career in Dresden in 1897, with a display at the Dresden Exposition of decorative arts.

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Jugendstil settled in Weimar in 1899 and produced a wide variety of decorative works, including silverware and ceramics, all in strikingly original forms.

Jugendstil's silverware was particularly unusual: each piece had its own form, with sleek curving lines, but together they formed a harmonious ensemble.

Jugendstil created a showcase of applied arts for the Dresden Exposition of Applied Arts in 1906, decorated with paintings by Ludwig von Hofmann, intended as the main room of a new museum of decoration in Weimar.

Jugendstil transposed the characteristics of his silverware, dishes, and furniture into the architecture.

Jugendstil's remake of Art Nouveau into a more functional and simplified style very different appeared in his door handles, his chairs, and the facades of his buildings.

Jugendstil designed every detail of the interior down to the nails.

Jugendstil designed the Hackesche Hofe, a complex of buildings in the centre of Berlin, noted for the imaginative details of the decoration, in spirals and curling forms,.

Ideal of designers of the Jugendstil was to make a house a complete work of art, with everything inside, from the furniture to the carpets and the dishware, silverware and the art, in perfect harmony.