Soup plate 1900 - 1901
peterbehrens
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ceramic, porcelain
circular oval feature
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germany
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culinary art
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This soup plate, designed by Peter Behrens between 1900 and 1901, is a prime example of Art Nouveau design. The plate features a simple white background with a green band along the rim adorned with stylized geometric patterns and curves. These elements, typical of the Art Nouveau aesthetic, evoke a sense of organic flow and natural forms. The plate is a testament to Behrens's influential role in shaping the design principles of the early 20th century.
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Behrens worked as a painter and illustrator before he joined the Darmstadt artists colony in Germany, where he designed a house and all its furnishings. He trained as a graphic designer, and that can be seen in his complex, concentric designs seen here in the dinnerware for German firm Bauscher. It must have seemed extremely modern at the turn of the century. Behrens's designs were promoted in department stores as part of the ideal of broadly available, good modernist design. He went on to be the first individual to practice industrial design in the modern sense, creating a graphic identity and products for Berlin electric firm AEG as early as 1907.
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