Art Nouveau by Carol Belanger Grafton

Author:Carol Belanger Grafton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2015-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864–1901) / Divan Japonais, 1892

THÉOPHILE-ALEXANDRE STEINLEN (1859–1923) / French Chocolate and Tea Company, 1896

ALPHONSE MARIA MUCHA (1860–1939) / Job, 1898

WILLIAM H. BRADLEY (1868–1962) / Thanksgiving Number, “The Chap-Book,” 1895

LOUIS JOHN RHEAD (1857–1926) / Read the Sun, 1895

JOSEPH J. GOULD, JR. (1880–1935) / Lippincott’s December, 1896

INDEX OF ARTISTS

H. Anker [dates unknown]

Plates 102–104

Austrian interior decorator and graphic artist, collaborated with J. Klinger on one of the most memorable original works on Art Nouveau decoration, La Linge grotesque et ses variations dans la décoration moderne (Paris, c. 1907).

René Beauclair (1877–1960)

Plates 2–4

Prolific French painter, designer, and decorative artist who worked in a variety of media including ceramics, textiles, and jewelry design.

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)

Plates 84–88

English illustrator whose distinctive, erotic, and often imitated pen and (black) ink illustrations made him one of the driving forces behind the spread of the art nouveau graphic style and technique beyond the continent of Europe.

Max Benirschke (1880–1970)

Plates 96–98

Graphic artist in the Jugendstil movement.

William H. Bradley (1868–1962)

Plate 132

American illustrator and masterful poster artist whose influence on graphic style in the United States was comparable to that of Aubrey Beardsley in England. His style was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and the then growing awareness in the West of Japanese woodblock printing.

A. Charayron (active 1900–10)

Plates 5–7

French graphic artist and designer. Co-author with Léon Durand of a treatise on the pochoir technique, La Décoration Pratique au Pochoir (Dourdan, France: Emile Thézard, n.d.).

Jules Chéret (1836–1932)

Plate 128

French painter, lithographer and masterful designer of over a thousand magnificent posters. Alphonse Mucha and other great figures of the Art Nouveau movement were his artistic descendants.

A. Desaint [dates unknown]

Plates 8–10

French interior decorator, expert colorist, and designer of decorative stencils. Published books on Art Nouveau decorative themes between 1905 and 1930.

Maurice Dufrène (1876–1955)

Plates 11–13

Prolific French designer with wide-ranging interests, worked in furniture design, ceramics, glassware and overall interior decoration.

Léon Durand [dates unknown]

Plates 5–7

See Charayron, A.

L. François [dates unknown]

Plates 14–16

French editor of a catalogue of Art Nouveau tile designs published in Paris in 1905.

Charles Gmelich (1875–1955)

Plates 69–71

German art instructor who studied in Paris around the turn of the nineteenth century. Collaborated with his teaching colleague Gustave Kolb on a 1902 collection of Art Nouveau ornamental plates with a title which summarizes a large part of the Art Nouveau aesthetic, Von Der Pflanze Zum Ornament (From Plant to Ornament).

Joseph J. Gould, Jr. (1880–1935)

Plate 134

An American artistic descendent of Edward Penfield, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and succeeded William L. Carqueville as a poster designer for Lippincott’s.

M. J. Gradl (1873–1934)

Plates 63–65

German designer Max Joseph Gradl, who worked in the Art Nouveau style in many areas, is best known for his jewelry designs and typography.

M. Eugène Grasset (1845–1917)

Plates 17–19

Swiss designer, based in Paris after 1871, worked in furniture, textiles, ceramics and jewelry but is best known for his graphic design, including postcards, postage stamps, and above all, posters, several of which are included in The Maîtres de l’Affiche collection.

J. Habert-Dys (1850–1928)

Plates 20–22

Jules-Auguste Habert-Dys published several now very rare collections of graphic designs in the 1880s and 1890s.

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