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Anton Seder's the Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
An Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures.
A vibrant page of sea creatures, whose colors and symmetry suggest a looser and more fantastical interpretation of Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur, offer themselves up as bookplates or frontispieces. Fictitious histories emerge across the pages of Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst: Celtic knot borders and scripts accompany winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs complement Nile crocodiles and South Asian gharials, a massive faux-classical coin frames a proud Arctic snowy owl. Already a leading representative of the growing German Art Nouveau movement, he chose to steer the school toward Jugendstil, training his students to draw on history and from nature, with the help of an on-site greenhouse.
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