Figure Drawing: art nouveau

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Koloman Moser - Art Nouveau Lithographs

Koloman Moser is one of the most important artists of the Viennese Art Nouveau. He was important in the Vienna Secession movement and a founder of the Wiener Werkstätte. He was a designer of furnishings and interiors as well as a painter and graphic designer. These prints are are for sale on Ebay.

Charles Robinson - Art Nouveau Illustrations for The Sensitive Plant

The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley, as illustrated by Charles Robinson and published by William Heinemann, London/J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia circa 1911. With introduction by Edmund Gosse. Printed by the Ballantyne Press, London.

Illustrated edition of Shelley's romantic poem showing both Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite influences in the illustrations.

The Sensitive Plant illustrated by Charles Robinson, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 22 copies for sale at Abebooks.com

One copy is for sale on Ebay Click here to see it for sale on Ebay

Another copy at Amazon.com: The Sensitive Plant

Additional examples of Charles Robinson's work at John Coulthart's blog:

Charles Robinson's Alice's Adventure inWonderland

The Art of Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

Another example at Lines and Colors.

Google Books copy of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Google Books copy of Lullaby Land, Songs of Childhood with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Here is the poem: The Sensitive Plant

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Art Nouveau Figure Painting Jugend Magazine and La Vie Parisienne Magazine

Drawings by Fidus, Page about Fidus (Hugo Höppener)
Naturalismus als Weltanschauung?: Biologische, theosophische und deutsch-volkische Bildlichkeit in der von Fidus illustrierten Lyrik (1893-1902)(German Edition)

Another image by Hugo Hoeppener, tis one is for sale at Derby City Prints.

Drawing by Hans Christiansen

In the late nineteenth century Georg Hirth established Jugend Magazine which became the style setter which launched the German Art Nouveau movement. There is a website, About Jugend Magazine, devoted to the magazine which has much more complete information. Many of the drawings and paintings were examples of figurative work of the time by artists as varied as Heinrich Kley, Sascha Schneider, ichard Schaupp, Oscar Matthiesen, M. Bermuth, Ludwig von Hoffman, Hans Lesker, Hans Christiansen, Gudmund Hentae, Georg Herting, Wilhem Volz and Fidus.

Click here to see the examples from the magazine on Ebay.