The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the
École de Nancy
École de Nancy, or the Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers working in Nancy, France between 1890 and 1914. Major figures included the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, ebonist and glass artist Jacques Grüber, the ...
, an
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
movement founded in 1901 by
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of ...
,
Victor Prouvé
Victor Prouvé, born 13 August 1858 in Nancy, dead 15 February 1943 at Sétif (Algeria), was a French painter, sculptor and engraver of the Art Nouveau École de Nancy.
He designed decors of glass works and furniture for Émile Gallé. He worke ...
,
Louis Majorelle
Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle, usually known simply as Louis Majorelle, (26 September 1859 – 15 January 1926) was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ''ébéniste''. ...
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and
Eugène Vallin
Eugène Vallin (1856 – 21 July 1922) was a French furniture designer and manufacturer, as well as an architect.
Life and career
Vallin was born at Herbéviller, and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. He was apprenticed in the stu ...
in the city of
Nancy in
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...
, north-eastern France.
They were joined by other artists, notably
Jacques Grüber
Jacques Grüber (25 January 1870 – 15 December 1936) was a French woodworker and glass artist.
Grüber was born in Sundhouse (Alsace). After starting his training at the , where he would later be a teacher, he followed his learning with Gustave ...
.
The museum, opened in 1964, is set in the former house of a patron of the École de Nancy, Eugène Corbin. The architect was
Lucien Weissenburger
Lucien Weissenburger (2 May 1860 – 24 February 1929) was a French architect.
Weissenburger was born and died in Nancy. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Lorraine and was a member of the board of ...
. It has a garden, an aquarium pavilion, and the main building contains works by all the major Art Nouveau artists of Nancy, which was one of the major centers of the movement in Europe.
Gallery
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References
External links
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Tourist information about the museumOfficial webpage of the museum
Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy
Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy
Art museums and galleries in France
Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy
Museums in Meurthe-et-Moselle
Art museums established in 1964
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Art Nouveau museum buildings
Houses in France
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