Art Nouveau was a deliberate break with the past. Between roughly 1890 and 1910, architects, painters, glassmakers, jewellers, and poster designers across Europe rejected historical revivalism and built a new visual language drawn from organic forms: the curve of a stem, the vein of a leaf, the span of an insect wing. The movement had different names in d…
Works of Art Nouveau are held in 188 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Poster Section, and Kunsthaus Zürich.
Key artists
Work by these painters is spread across the museums listed below.
🇦🇲 Armenia
1 museum
Also in ArmeniaNational Gallery of Armenia (19)
🇦🇹 Austria
4 museums
Also in AustriaBelvedere (44)Vienna Museum (9)Leopold Museum (8)Albertina (7)
🇧🇪 Belgium
1 museum
Also in BelgiumMuseum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) (11)
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
1 museum
Also in Czech Republicmuseum collection of the Prague City Gallery (21)
🇫🇷 France
6 museums
Also in FranceMusée d'Orsay (94)Musée National d'Art Moderne (34)Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris (17)Musée Carnavalet (9)Musée Rodin (7)Musée des Arts Décoratifs (6)
🇮🇱 Israel
1 museum
Also in IsraelTel Aviv Museum of Art (6)
🇯🇵 Japan
1 museum
Also in JapanPola Museum of Art (10)
🇳🇱 Netherlands
3 museums
Also in NetherlandsStedelijk Museum Amsterdam (18)Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (16)Kröller-Müller Museum (12)
🇷🇺 Russia
1 museum
Also in RussiaHermitage Museum (9)
🇪🇸 Spain
2 museums
Also in SpainPoster Section (164)Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (6)
🇨🇭 Switzerland
3 museums
Also in SwitzerlandKunsthaus Zürich (129)Kunstmuseum Basel (20)Kunstmuseum Bern (14)
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
4 museums
Also in United KingdomHunterian Museum and Art Gallery (104)Tate (23)National Gallery (15)Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums collections (9)
🇺🇸 United States
22 museums
Also in United StatesNational Gallery of Art (2737)Freer Gallery of Art (121)Yale Center for British Art (101)Metropolitan Museum of Art (93)Minneapolis Institute of Art (25)Art Institute of Chicago (21)Vanderbilt Museum of Art (19)Harvard Art Museums (18)Fogg Museum (16)Philadelphia Museum of Art (15)Brandywine Museum of Art (14)Museum of Modern Art (13)Detroit Institute of Arts (12)Cleveland Museum of Art (11)Colby College Museum of Art (10)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (8)Terra Foundation for American Art (8)Baltimore Museum of Art (7)Neue Galerie (7)Museum of Fine Arts Boston (7)Smithsonian American Art Museum (6)RISD Museum (6)
138 more museums hold Art Nouveau works with smaller collections, not listed here.
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Where can I see Art Nouveau paintings?
Art Nouveau works are held in 188 museums worldwide, including National Gallery of Art, Poster Section, and Kunsthaus Zürich.How many museums have Art Nouveau artworks?
188 museums worldwide hold works by Art Nouveau artists.Which is the best museum for Art Nouveau?
National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. holds the largest Art Nouveau collection with 2737 works.