Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau (French for "new art") is an art and design style that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. Other, more localized terms for the cluster of self-consciously radical, somewhat mannered reformist chic that formed a prelude to 20th-century modernism, included "Jugendstil" in Germany, named for the snappy avant-garde periodical Jugend ('Youth') or "Sezessionstil" in Vienna, where forward-looking artists and designers seceded from the mainstream salon exhibitions, to exhibit on their own in more congenial surroundings.

Noted Art Nouveau artists

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• Architecture
• Émile André
• August Endel
• Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
• Victor Horta (1861-1947)
• Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956)
• Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
• Louis Sullivan (1856-1924)
• Otto Wagner
• Drawing, Graphics
• Aubrey Beardsley
• Gaston Gerard
• Alfons Mucha
• Edvard Munch
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Pierre Bonnard
• Furniture
• Carlo Bugatti
• Eugène Gaillard
• Louis Majorelle
• Henry van de Velde
• Glassware
• Daum Frères
• Emile Gallé (1846-1904)
• René Lalique
• Louis Comfort Tiffany
• Other decorative arts
• Charles R. Ashbee
• Samuel Bing
• William Bradley
• Jules Brunfaut
• Hermann Obrist
• Philippe Wolfers
• Murals and mosaics
• Mikhail Vrubel
• Gustav Klimt