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Jugendstil: see art nouveau art nouveau (är' n ..... Click the link for more information. . JugendstilArtistic style that arose near the end of the 19th century in Germany and Austria. Its name was derived from the Munich magazine Die Jugend (“Youth”), founded in 1896, which featured Art Nouveau designs. Its early phase, primarily floral in character, was rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese prints; a more abstract phase emerged after 1900. Primarily a style in architecture and the decorative arts, it also included the great Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. |
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| Studying art, Reiss "came under the influence of modern decorative arts movements such as Jugendstil and such international movements as Fauvism and Cubism"; he combined his interest in "primitive" subjects with modern ideas about abstraction (Stewart 22). Cottbus, a banal industrial city near the Polish border, is worth a fast hour's drive on the autobahn from Berlin for its quirky Jugendstil theatre, and as an incentive to continue on to Wroclaw (the former Breslau), a repository of classic modern buildings. As for the exhibition's title, "Kasekrainer" is a kind of specialty sausage and a play on the gallery's name, while "Furniture Showroom" refers to the gallerist's previous career as a dealer in Jugendstil design. |
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