Eugène Samuel Grasset was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.
Eugène Grasset, from Joseph Uzanne, Album Mariani, vol III; Paris: Floury, 1897
Eugène Samuel Grasset, poster for an exhibition of French decorative art at the Grafton Galleries, 1893
Apparitions, enamel brooch, Musée d'Orsay
Grasset poster, Drei Frauen und drei Wölfe, c. 1892.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academicism, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decorative art.
Image: Abbesses
Image: Otto Eckmann Jugend Nr. 14, 1896
Image: Louis comfort tiffany, lampada da tavolo pomb lily, 1900 10 ca
Image: Louis Majorelle Wall Cabinet Walters 6587