Émile Gallé, a French designer, illustrator, decorator, and glass artist.
In 1901, he created the Alliance Provinciale des Artistes, known as the École de Nancy, a group of artists with enormous influence in the spread of Art Nouveau in France.
He had the support of designers Victor Prouvé and Louis Majorelle.
Son of glass and ceramic merchant Charles Gallé, he began designing decorations on glass and ceramics for his father at a very young age, and later studied botany and mineralogy in Weimar (Germany) and the art of glassmaking in Meisenthal (France).
Starting in the 1870s, he produced works in glass and, to a lesser extent, designed furniture and ceramics.
He was highly acclaimed at the major Paris exhibitions. By then, he already had his own factory.
The works they produced were sold at Samuel Bing's L'Art Nouveau, and in the year he died, he had opened a shop in London.
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Style Art Nouveau
The name "Art Nouveau" in French means "new art." It is also known as “Jugendstil” in Germany. In contrast, in Vienna and Italy it is called "Liberty".
It employs curvilinear designs with sinuous, asymmetrical lines, often based on plant forms, as well as stylized female silhouettes.
The style was used in architecture, interior design, glassware, jewelry, sculpture, painting, furniture, posters, and illustration.
New materials were introduced, such as opals and semi-precious stones.
The Art Nouveau style had its greatest momentum at the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris.
After that, it spread throughout Europe, the United States, and Australia.
In Paris, you can see the metro entrances, and in Belgium, its countless buildings.
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