Art Nouveau Gallery

Couple kissing at spring with Birch illustration Art Nouveau 1897

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme catala in Catalan, etc. In English it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Epoque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : Jugend Band 1 - 1897
Drawing : H. Eichrodt ( Munchen )

© Ralf Hettler

Sleeping beauty knight kissing princess art nouveau 1898

Sleeping Beauty ( German: "Dornroschen" ). A fairy tale originally published by Charles Perrault and later written down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme catala in Catalan, etc. In English it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Epoque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : Jugend Band 1 - 1898
Drawing : Fritz Erler ( Munchen )

© Ralf Hettler

Pan playing flute with Dionysus in nature drawing art nouveau 1897

Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. Dionysus is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, orchards and fruit, vegetation, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme catala in Catalan, etc. In English it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Epoque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : Jugend Band 1 - 1898
Drawing : E.M. Lilien ( Munchen )
Zauberflote

© Ralf Hettler