jugendstil

/ˌjuː.ɡəntˈʃtiːl/

jugendstil means the German equivalent of art nouveau. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

jugendstil is pronounced /ˌjuː.ɡəntˈʃtiːl/.

Why “jugendstil” is a great word

JUGENDSTIL — [Noun] The German and Central European variant of Art Nouveau, an artistic movement emphasizing organic forms and fluid lines from the 1890s to 1910. Borrowed from German Jugendstil, from Jugend ("youth") + Stil ("style"), named after the Munich magazine 'Jugend', founded in 1896. Unlike "Art Nouveau" (the sweeping, international designation) or "Secession" (which specifically denotes the Austrian variant centered on Vienna's artist group), Jugendstil roots the style in a particular cultural and graphic sensibility born from that single, progressive periodical. It is the whiplash curve of a wrought-iron gate, the sinuous stem of a Tiffany-esque lamp blooming in a Munich café, and the elegant, attenuated typography gracing the pages of its namesake magazine—a brief, stylized spring of form, believing beauty could be modernized and mass-produced, before the sober winter of modernism.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Jugendstil.

noun

The German equivalent of art nouveau.