Sketch-portrait of General Arthur Gorger

Art Nouveau period illustration. Artistic current baptizes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In each country the movement took on a proper name in France, for example, it was known as Style Guimard, Style 1900 or École de Nancy (for art objects); in Britain it was known as Modern Style or Studio Style, while in Germany it took the name of Jugendstil, in Austria Sezessionstil, in the Netherlands Nieuwe Kunst, in Poland Secesja, in Switzerland Style sapin or Jugendstil, in Serbia and Croatia Secesija, in Russia Modern, Liberty in Italy and, in Spain, Modernism.