A few months ago I turned up a collection of decorative animal designs by Anton Seder, a German artist, designer and art teacher. Moderne Malereien is a sequel to this in which Seder applies his somewhat overwrought Art Nouveau style to the world of interior design, with suggestions for a variety of elaborate murals. Animals are also present in some of these plates, especially fish; Seder had a fondness for aquatic organisms. Similar designs may be found in the pages of Kunstgewerbe in Elsass-Lothringen, a short-lived journal which Seder co-edited from 1900 to 1906.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst
• Dolmetsch’s Ornamentenschatz
• Racinet’s Polychromatic Ornament
• Buchschmuck und Flächenmuster by Max Benirschke
• Christopher Dresser’s Studies in Design
• Christopher Dresser’s Art of Decorative Design
• Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche
• Album de la décoration
• The Grammar of Ornament revisited
• Dekorative Vorbilder
• Combinaisons Ornementales
• Charles J Strong’s Book of Designs
• Styles of Ornament
• The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones