The Musée de l'École de Nancy is a museum devoted to the

École de Nancy École de Nancy, or the Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers working in Nancy, France between 1890 and 1914. Major figures included the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, ebonist and glass artist Jacques Grüber, t ...

, an

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

movement founded in 1901 by

Émile Gallé Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of ...

, Victor Prouvé, Louis Majorelle,

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and Eugène Vallin in the city of Nancy in

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, north-eastern France. They were joined by other artists, notably Jacques Grüber. The museum, opened in 1964, is set in the former house of a patron of the École de Nancy, Eugène Corbin. The architect was

Lucien Weissenburger Lucien Weissenburger (2 May 1860 – 24 February 1929) was a French architect. Weissenburger was born and died in Nancy. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Lorraine and was a member of the board of ...

. It has a garden, an aquarium pavilion, and the main building contains works by all the major Art Nouveau artists of Nancy, which was one of the major centers of the movement in Europe.

Gallery

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