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Hungarian Art Nouveau Carpet Designs

[Gödöllö weaving school carpet catalogue.] A gödöllöi szövöiskola, az orsz. m. kir. iparmüveszeti iskola tanmühelyének kepes árjegyzeke.

Godollo: Around 1910. In original paper. 4p., 4 pp. Near fine condition.

Illustrated Gödöllő weaving school catalogue presenting Hungarian Art Nouveau carpet designs.

Illustrated price list issued by the weaving workshop of the Royal Hungarian School of Applied Arts at Gödöllő, documenting carpet designs produced within the circle of the Gödöllő artists’ colony. The publication presents examples of Hungarian Art Nouveau textile design, combining decorative motifs with a programmatic return to folk and regional sources.

The catalogue includes works by Körösfői-Kriesch Aladár, Nagy Sándor, and Undi Karla, central figures of the Gödöllő colony, whose practice sought to integrate fine and applied arts within a unified aesthetic framework. Their designs reflect the synthesis of Art Nouveau principles with elements derived from Transylvanian and Hungarian folk traditions.

The Gödöllő colony, active in the early twentieth century, played a key role in the development of a distinct Hungarian variant of Art Nouveau, particularly in the fields of textile and decorative arts.

Sándor Nagy (1868–1950), one of the founders of the colony, was instrumental in shaping this direction, drawing on vernacular sources to articulate a national modern style.

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Price: €800.00