Norway · Decorative arts; Ceramics; Ålesund heritage
Ålesund Jugendstil — Norsk Art Nouveau
The Ålesund Art Nouveau craft tradition — the distinctive Norwegian Jugendstil that emerged when the town of Ålesund was rebuilt entirely after the 1904 fire, creating the largest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture in Scandinavia; the associated ceramics and decorative craft tradition incorporated the dragon style (Norwegian stave church imagery) with the European Art Nouveau floral vocabulary. The Ålesund ceramic decorator reads the correct underglaze color viscosity through a horizontal-stroke-and-observe assessment before applying the characteristic flowing Art Nouveau motifs to the Ålesund ceramic forms.
Risk level: Stable · Not listed; Ålesund Art Nouveau tradition on the Norwegian national heritage inventory
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