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  1. ·Art Nouveau Pictures in the Public Domain Artworks and collections of Art Nouveau art, which are now in the public domain. These images are all out of copyright, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.
  2. Richardson, Frederick Frederick Richardson (1862-1937) was an American illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best remembered for his illustrations of works by L. Frank Baum. A native Chicagoan, Richardson studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He taught at the Chicago Art Institute for seven years. He was "a slightly-built, gray-eyed man" whose work "was strongly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement...." From 1892 on, if not e...
  3. Toorop, Jan Johannes Theodorus "Jan" Toorop (1858-1928) was a Dutch painter who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Toorop's father was Christoffel Theodorus Toorop, a civil servant, and his mother was Maria Magdalena Cooke. He was the third of five children and lived on the island of Bangka near Sumatra until he was nine years old. He was then sent to school in Batavia on Java. In ...
  4. Armstrong, Margaret Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was a 19th and early 20th-century American book cover designer, illustrator and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American West, 'Field Book of Western Wild Flowers' (1915). Margaret Neilson Armstrong was born in 1867 in New York City, the daughter of American diplomat and stained glass artist Maitland Armstrong and his wife Helen, wh...
  5. Benedictus, Edouard Édouard Bénédictus (1878-1930) was a painter, writer, composer and chemist who started his career in the Art Nouveau period. He wrote an influential article in L'Art décoratif in 1912. However, he was greatly receptive to the stylistic evolution started in 1912 and that became Art Deco. Appreciated for his portfolios "Variations" in 1923 and "Nouvelles Variations" in 1928, he became one the most famous protagonists of the floral Art Deco. He played a special role in the Pa...
  6. Beskow, Elsa Elsa Beskow, née Maartman (1874-1953), was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Among her better-known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman and Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender. Born in Stockholm, her parents were businessman Bernt Maartman (1841-1889), whose family came from Bergen, Norway, and teacher Augusta Fahlstedt (1850-1915). Beskow studied Art Education at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, then called Tekniska skola...
  7. Berthon, Paul Paul Berthon (1872-1909) was a French artist who produced primarily posters and lithographs in the Art Nouveau style. Berthon studied as a painter in Villefranche-sur-Saône before moving to Paris. He later enrolled at the Ecole Normale d'Enseignement de Dessin and received lessons in painting from Luc-Olivier Merson and lessons in decorative arts from Eugène Grasset. Grasset had a far greater influence on him, and he may be regarded as his pupil. Berthon's work is in the style of Art ...
  8. Bradley, William H. William Henry Bradley (1868-1962) was an American Art Nouveau illustrator, artist and film director. Nicknamed the "Dean of American Designers" by The Saturday Evening Post, he was the highest-paid American artist of the early 20th century. Bradley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Aaron Bradley and Sarah Rowland. At the age of 12 he obtained a job as an apprentice for a weekly newspaper, the Iron Agitator, later known as the Iron Ore, in Ishpeming, Michigan. He had moved there wit...
  9. Carqueville, William William L. Carqueville (1871-1946) trained as a lithographer in his father's firm. He studied in Paris and returned after 1900 to work for the Chicago Tribune. He lived in Chicago for most of his life. He founded his own lithographic press there and designed posters for Lippincott's as well as other American literary magazines. His style was somewhat influenced by another American poster artist, Edward Penfield. In the United States, as in Europe at this time, literary magazines flour...
  10. Clarke, Harry Henry Patrick Clarke RHA (1889-1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. His stained glass was particularly informed by the French Symbolist movement. He was born on 17 March 1889, the younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid (née MacGonigal) Clarke. Joshua Clarke was a church decorator who moved to Dublin fro...
  11. Hazenplug, Frank Frank S. Hazenplug (1873-1931) was an American artist, engraver, typographer, poster artist, and illustrator of books. He is one of the pioneers of Art Nouveau. Frank S. Hazenplug was the last child of Jane and Henry Hazenplug, a furniture-maker in Dixon, Illinois. He began his career in Chicago, where a new artistic scene emerged in the early 1890s. By 1894, Hazenplug (a.k.a. Hazen after 1911) designed books for the Chicago firm of Stone & Kimball, and remained with its successor, Herber...
  12. Hokusai, Katsushika Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence ...
  13. Feure, George de Georges de Feure (1868-1943), real name Georges Joseph van Sluijters, was a French painter, theatrical designer, and industrial art designer in the symbolism and Art Nouveau styles. De Feure was born in Paris. His father was an affluent Dutch architect, and his mother was Belgian. De Feure had two sons, Jean Corneille and Pierre Louis, in the early 1890s with his mistress Pauline Domec and a daughter with his first wife Marguerite Guibert (married 7 July 1897). In 1886, de Feure was one of th...
  14. Mackintosh, Charles Rennie Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. He is among the most important figures of Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style). Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow on 7 ...
  15. Mucha, Alphonse Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was a Czech painter and decorative artist, renowned for his distinctive Art Nouveau style. Born in 1860 in Ivančice, Moravia (now the Czech Republic), Mucha showed an early interest in art. Despite financial difficulties, he pursued his passion, studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and later at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Mucha's breakthrough came in 1894 when he was commissioned to create a poster for the actress Sarah Bern...
  16. Privat-Livemont, Henri Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861-1936) was a Belgian Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T. Privat-Livemont. Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on 9 October 1861, to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard. From the age of 13 he studied drawing at the academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Louis Hendrickx. He graduated at the top of his class in 1883 and was awarded a government bursary to spend time in Paris, where he remained 1883...