Viennese Art Nouveau Jugendstil Violin

A violin decorated in the spirit of Viennese Art Nouveau — drawing on the Jugendstil tradition and the Wiener Werkstätte without slavishly recreating any single historical design.

My inspiration for this violin came from Austrian Art Nouveau "Jugendstil" designs as well as those of the Wiener Werkstätte. I borrowed loosely from both traditions to come up with something evocative of the period without doggishly recreating an existing design. In particular, the artists Adolf Höfer and Lazar Nagy were a big influence and just to shake it up a bit, I also looked at some of the floral designs by Maurice Verneuil.