Blog 3: Antiques Hunter

“Art Nouveau flourished in a number of European countries” including like France, Britain, Spain and Austria, they also have their own names for the style. But for Germany the named that they use for this style is ‘Jugendstil’. The name Jugendstil was derived from the Munich magazine which featured Art Nouveau designs

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Searching through Trademe I’ve found this German Art Nouveau style candle holder which doesn’t have information of the creator and date on it, but it would have been made between 1800s and 1910s.

A candle holder is an object that is “part of everyday life”. As you can see from the pictures there are curving lines all around the candle holder which shows us that it’s an Art Nouveau style object. “Although curving lines characterize Art Nouveau” The whole candle holder is full of curving designs, like the middle of the holder; it looks like a shape of a flower pot which it indicates flowers. Some of the designs from this style have like organic or flowers on them so the shape that looks like a flower pot on the holder symbolizes that.

Art Nouveau designs have organic/plants on the object, on the bottom of the candle holder there are a few like organic/plant bits on their which I think its suppose to create beauty and harmony to the object along with the curve lines. “Art Nouveau style are flat, decorative patterns, intertwined organic forms of stems or flowers”, “Organic and dynamic forms”.

In my opinion I think the seller could of included a bit more information about this object like the date of it and the material that it was made out of.

References
Art Nouveaum. (1999-2007). Retrieved from http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/artnouveau.htm 

Lachiusa. (2002). Art Nouveau Architecture. Retrieved  from http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/a/artnou.html 

Trademe link http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=470101633