Art Nouveau Timeline
1884 Brussels Term “art nouveau” appears in print for the first time, describing the Belgian artists’ group “Les XX. “The first subway system opens in London. 1885 Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent the first automobile run by an internal combustion engine. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is built for the Paris World’s Fair. 1892 New York Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established. 1893 Great BritainParis Japanese prints exhibition organized by Siegfried Bing. Aubrey Beardsley design published in the first issue of the magazine The Studio. Brussels Victor Horta designs the Tassel House
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris. Women win the right to vote in New Zealand, the first country to embrace female suffrage. In Belgium universal male suffrage is adopted. Chicago Columbian World’s Fair; Adler and Sullivan design the Transportation Building. 1894 ParisClaude Debussy completes L’apres-midi d’une faune. Hector Guimard designs Castel Beranger. 1895 ParisLouis Comfort Tiffany exhibits at Bing’s opening of L’Art Nouveau. The Lumiere brothers screen the first moving picture–of workers leaving a factory. Siegfried Bing opens his gallery/shop L’Art Nouveau. 897 GlasgowBrussels World’s Fair: Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta show designs. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton design Buchanan Street tearooms. 1898 MunichVienna Josef Olbrich designs Secession Building. United Workshops for Art in Handicraft founded. Gustav Klimt paints Pallas Athene. Turin Exhibition of Italian decorative arts. European and American troops are sent to quell the Boxer Rebellion in China. 1899 London South Kensington Museum becomes Victoria and Albert MuseumParis Hector Guimard designs Castel Henriette. Rene Lalique designs Dragonfly woman corsage ornament.
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, published. 1900 London Charles Robert Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibit to great acclaim at EighthParis metro opens using Hector Guimard’s Metro station entrances. Secession Exhibition, Vienna. Paris metro opens using Hector Guimard’s Metro station entrances. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, published. 1901 NancyQueen Victoria dies after sixty-three-year reign that saw vast expansion of British colonial rule. Emile Galle made first president of Ecole de Nancy. 1903 Americans Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first manned flight at Kitty Hawk.
Pierre and Marie Curie share Nobel Prize for discovery of radium. 1905 Albert Einstein develops the special theory of relativity. Exhibition at Salon d’automne by artists dubbed “les fauves. ” 1906 Barcelona Antoni Gaudi designs Casa Mila. 1907 Chicago Frank Lloyd Wright designs Robie House. 1909 Glasgow Completion of Glasgow School of Art. 1910 Venice Venice Biennale includes Gustav Klimt. 1913 PragueIgor Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps, performed. Jan Kotera founds the Union of Czech Artwork. 1914 ViennaAssassination of Archduke Ferdinand triggers World War I. Vienna Workshops go into liquidation.
