Influenced by the Nabis, he felt art was a synthesis of nature expressed in personal symbols. Christansen had diverse training, working as a decorative painter and in an interior design shop, studying in Italy and at the Academie Julian in Paris. The screen uses leather for the panels, and small gold rivets surround each of the three panels. Influenced by Japonisme, the screen echoes the gold leaf background of the late 16 th-century byЕЌbu of the KanЕЌ School, but it innovatively uses the materials of German crafts. The asymmetrical composition creates a sense of dynamic movement. The flared petals of the orange blossoms on unrealistically thin and extended tendrils seem to float serenely in the golden space.

This folding screen depicts richly colored poppies and their green curvilinear foliage along a river that, beginning at the lower right, twists sinuously in a tightening whiplash in the upper left and middle panels. Setting up workshops across Germany, Jugendstil artists worked with industrial designers to create objects that could easily be mass produced.ДЄrtist: Hans Christiansen and Georg Hulbe While Jugendstil emphasized the individual imagination, it also strove to bring art and design to a wide audience.The idea of the gesamtkunstwerk evolved over the 19 th century, and Jugendstil took its core aim - a desire to synthesize all of the arts - to create carefully designed environments that would be harmonious with human use. Many of the Jugendstil artists were well versed in multiple art forms, and they strove to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.It shared with the international Art Nouveau movement naturalistic floral motifs, but as the style evolved, the organic shapes contrasted with more abstract and geometric forms to create a more complex dynamism. The dominant forms of Jugendstil furniture, architecture, and illustrations were organic shapes and lines that were at once simple and dynamic.

The vienna secession and jugendstile