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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4588730, member: 2844&quot;]Artists all over Europe swapped ideas, but the austere, linear Jugendstil is purely German. </p><p>The Austro-Hungarian designers hardly did austere, they mostly did typical Austro-Hungarian flamboyance and ott, think of Mucha and Klimt. And when they did linear, they couldn&#039;t help but add some gilded froufrou here and there.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In fact it was Germany that promoted interaction between artists of the period, including the British Arts &amp; Crafts lot. More precisely art loving Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen Darmstadt, who invited national and international artists to his Mathildenhöhe art colony in Darmstadt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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