Art Nouveau stained glass in Oradea

The echo and influence of the artistic movement that took place in 1900 brought a new spirit in all modern creation, which in a fact is a final blow to the academic eclecticism, removing its canons and a chivvying through invention originality a great artistic diversity.

The stained glass, the opaque and colored glass that is still preserved in the staircases or the people's houses are of great elegance and equilibrium due to its line which draws with precision spatial transparent moving, in a graphic language of rare elegance, in which big spots of color represent dominant compositions of good quality decorative conception, in harmony with the architectural style. As an architectural expression, the ornament as structural symbol, on the one hands, and the qualities of the glass on the other one, benefits by the intimate the relation that will determine the form, that's the symbol of the object which acquires artistic value. Here are some stained glass decorations from famous Art Nouveau Style buildings in Oradea: