Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha’s Masterpiece of Symbolism
In April 2016, I reported about the plans of Century Guild on reprinting Mucha’s Le Pater. Well, that plan was …
Category Archives: 4. Video’s, Slides, Books…
Mozart’s Requiem: An Illuminated Manuscript
In this day and age of digital illustrations and Photoshop, Matt Hughes might be one of a dying breed. In …
Two Dutch Architects in Paris
A few weeks ago I received an incredibly interesting book in the mail. The book is called Two Dutch architects …
W.B. van Liefland (1857-1919)
At the moment Dutch author Peter van Dam (1948) is working on a monumental project: he is writing a series …
Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires, a Love Story
In the next couple of days, the richly illustrated coffee table book Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires, a Love Story …
Reprinting a lost Mucha Masterpiece
In 1899 Art Nouveau illustrator Alphonse Mucha printed a limited number of 510 copies of his most personal work-on-paper. More than …
Grand Tour Kunstreisgidsen Art Nouveau Jugendstil
This is my latest trophy. I found it at a secondhand bookstore last week and paid €3,- for it. Unfortunately for most of …
Casa Batlló, Barcelona
There isn’t much I can tell you about Casa Batlló as I have never been there. But Barcelona is very …
Die Bücher der Bibel
Last week I received a request from a reader. A request to pay some attention to a book which he …
Siegfried Bing (1838-1905)
If I were to name one person who made Art Nouveau big in Europe, it would be Siegfried Bing (1838-1905). During …
