Art Nouveau and Art Deco in the Netherlands: 50 years of design (1885 – 1935) :: 12 June – 5 October 2008 , Kaunas
(2008 06 25 12:17)The exhibition takes place in M.Zilinskas art gallery (Nepriklausomybes square 12, Kaunas, Lithuania). It can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 to 17. From September working hours from 11-17.The exhibition comes from Drents Museum Collection. It shows 50 years of history of design.
Around 1870 the need of a new, independent style arose. ’Applied Arts-movement’ influenced by the Arts and Crafts 
Movement in Great Britain came into being in the Netherlands. Within the movement there was a division between designers influenced by the international Art Nouveau and designers in favour of a more sober and severe design.
The first group with artists such as A.C. Colenbrander and Adolf le Comte had its base mainly in Delft and the Hague while the second group was concentrated mainly in and around Amsterdam with representatives such as H.P. Berlage, Jac. van den Bosch, Jan Eisenloeffel, Chris van der Hoef, Chris Lebeau and Willem Penaat. Their work was known as ‘the constructive movement’.
There were also designers who decided to combine rather severe overall forms with more luxurious decorations and materials, among others three friends who became the chief-designers for the Amsterdam firm E.J. van Wisselingh & Co,: G.W. Dijsselhof, Theo Nieuwenhuis and C.A. Lion Cachet.
During the World War I many artists reorientated themselves to tradition while only a few (Piet Mondriaan, Theo van Doesburg and Gerrit Rietveld) continued to experiment with modernism.
The whole history of the movement will be shown during the exhibition in Kaunas.