Accessible web journal “Bewegte Jahre” (“Exciting years) about the visionaries of Art Nouveau: a travel diary of Christian Heller, a fictional young journalist from Hamburg, written over a time span of nearly 20 years from 1897-1916. It is only available in German, but I reported in English to the Europeana blog here.
Idea and concept with Manuela van Rossem (MK&G), web concept and design with Christoph Lohse (Büro für Exakte Ästhetik), 2017
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- The journal starts with context and accessibility features like included audio version, introduction in sign language and detailed image description for screen readers.
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- The fictional protagonist could have looked like this portrait of an unknown man from our Online Collection.
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- Each of the chapters is a travel destination of journalist Christian Heller: Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Uccle, Glasgow, Ascona.
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- At the Paris World Fair in 1900, he is impressed by the moving boardwalks and meets Justus Brinckmann, the director of the MK&G.
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- Christian Heller also gets to see the workshops of famous Wiener Werkstätte in Vienna.
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- There, Klimt’s wife and designer Emilie Flöge models in her own reform designs.
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- A gallery of selected Art Nouveau objects from MK&G Collection Online, with direct link to share them on Pinterest.
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- For deeper engagement, we share some of our research material and associated links.
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- The journal receives the Grimme Online Award 2018. Photo: Grimme-Institut/Arkadiusz Goniwiecha (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
