Artist · 8 prints
Hans Christiansen Prints
About Hans Christiansen
Hans Christiansen was a German painter and designer of the Jugendstil, the German form of Art Nouveau. He was born in Flensburg on 6 March 1866 and died in Wiesbaden on 5 January 1945. He trained as a decorative painter, studied in Munich and travelled in Italy, then worked in Hamburg. After visiting the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian in the late 1890s.
Christiansen became well known for his covers and illustrations for the Munich weekly magazine Jugend, which gave Jugendstil its name. In 1899 Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig invited him to the new artists' colony at Darmstadt, where he designed furniture, glass, ceramics, jewellery and his own house, the Villa in Rosen, for the colony's 1901 exhibition. From 1912 he lived in Wiesbaden and turned mainly to painting. In 1933 the Nazi regime banned him from working as an artist. The Museumsberg Flensburg holds his estate.
Hans Christiansen prints: reproductions of the German Art Nouveau posters, magazine covers and prints Hans Christiansen designed between 1895 and 1901. The collection includes the Hamburg-St. Pauli Turnverein poster (1895), Die Woge (1896), the Jugend cover No. 33 (1897), L'Heure du Berger and the poster for the Darmstadt Artists' Colony exhibition of 1901.
This selection follows the key steps of Christiansen's early career: his Hamburg years, his work for Jugend magazine and his time at the Darmstadt colony. The designs share the curving lines, flat colour and decorative lettering of Jugendstil.
The decorative designs suit living rooms, bedrooms, hallways and dressing rooms, especially with period or mid-century furniture. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
