Dear Art Nouveau lovers, This is the Sunday evening quiz, in the direction of Switzerland! La Chaux-de-Fonds is a town of 38,000 inhabitants in a green setting in the Swiss Haut-Jura, 1,000 metres above sea level. It owes its structure, appearance, a large part of its character, and even its existence as a town to the watch-making industry. Its grid-pattern layout comes from determined and idealistic town planning, born out of the Age of the Enlightenment, applied to its reconstruction and development following the accidental fire in 1794 which destroyed the whole village: today La Chaux-de-Fonds is the most important Swiss example of coherent urban construction from the 19th century. Art Nouveau was imported to La Chaux-de-Fonds at the end of the 19th century under the influence of watch-making patrons and their trade representatives, and finds pride of place in the watch-making arena. Window panes, tiles, stairwell designs, stuccos, wood and iron work found their way into new constructions. Unique in Switzerland, it is at La Chaux-de-Fonds school of art that Art Nouveau found an original field of expression. To which Art Nouveau style, specific of La Chaux-de-Fonds, are these following famous artists and works connected?
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:41:06 +0000
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