Daum Frères Art Nouveau Vase
Daum Frères, Winter Scene, c. 1900. Acid-etched enameled glass By Lauren Anuszewski, Graduate Class of 2023 Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (or “new art”) was an international style known by many names: Style Jules Verne, Le Style Métro, Art Belle Époque, and Art fin de siècle in France, Jugendstil in Germany, Stile Floreale in Italy, and Modernismo in Spain.1 This “new style” was developed in the late 1880s as a reaction against the historical revivals, which looked to the past for artistic and architectural design. In search of something new, Art Nouveau artists turned to the natural world, rejecting the order,...