Personal Collections and Museums

Personal collections

• The art nouveau metalwork collection at Zanida includes a beautiful section on Orivit.
• Dr. Kreuzer (of art nouveau buckle collecting fame!) has several Orivit items displayed in his collection (text in German). The pieces displayed are models: 2280,?,2263,and 13530.
• Andre and Jose Baptiste's online collection of jugendstil pewter includes multiple Orivit pieces!


Museums
Germany
• The Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, houses a collection pertaining to Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism with items ranging from 1889 to 1939 including pieces by Orivit.
• The Kreismuseum, Zons evidently has a wonderful collection of Orivit pieces.
• The Bayerisches National Museum, Munich displays an Orivit plate (item number 2338) designed by Hermann Gradl as item 10.

Belgium
• The Victor Horta Museum, Brussels.

France
• The Musée D'Orsay, Paris contains one of the finest art nouveau collections.
  Below find a video posted by a YouTube user with a quick tour of their collections (dialogue in French).

England
• The Victoria and Albert Museum, London houses art nouveau work. Short essays on elements of the erotic in art nouveau as well as the end of the movement (and rise of art deco which followed) can be found on their site.
  Follow this link to a video of Paul Greenhalgh discussing art nouveau glass in the V&A collections.
  

America
• The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, VA contains both the Lewis and Kreuzer Collections. The Lewis Collection contains many fine Tiffany lamps as well as an extraordinary group of art nouveau furnishings. The Kreuzer Collection is reputedly the finest collection of Jugendstil and art nouveau belt buckles in the world. Catalogues of both collections have been published and are well worth purchasing.
• The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD has a small collection of lovely art nouveau objects on display.
• The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, Florida has pages devoted to Dutch and Italian art nouveau as well as the British arts and crafts movement.
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has pages devoted to art nouveau in America.
• The National Museum of Art, Washington maintains this online guide to a former exhibit as well as this concise introduction to the movement which includes information on its historical context.


Homepages devoted to art nouveau, jugendstil and secessionism

• Collect 1900 is a superb source of information for the art nouveau collector!
• "Art Nouveau World Wide"
• Art Lexicon: Art Nouveau
• La Belle Epoque.
• Several photos of a personal collection of Jugendstil belt buckles and other jewelry can be found here.
• James' page on art nouveau glass
• An extensive list of links to art nouveau/ jugendstil material at: Jugendstil Pagina (in Dutch).
  
  Designers and Scholars
  
• Peter Behrens (in German)
• Homepage of noted art nouveau scholar Dr. Gabriel Weisburg. I highly suggest his work on the impact of Sigfried Bing (a Parisian art dealer who coined the term L'Art Nouveau and is credited with starting the movement in France) including a recent movie and multiple books which are widely commercially available. Find a review of Dr. Weisberg's most recent book and a travelling exhibition on Sigfried Bing here.

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