The City Council has bought the Casa Tosquella. This jewel of Barcelona Modernisme was built in 1889 by commission of the trader Antoni Tosquella as a summer residence. In 1906 it was restored by the master builder Eduard M. Balcells i Buigas, who gave it its unique Art Nouveau style with Arabic touches. The house was declared a Historical Monument in 1974 and is listed as a Cultural Asset of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Once restored, the house will be opened as a facility for the Putxet neighbourhood of Barcelona.

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The Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as part of its 2021 activities, is organising a series of three online conferences addressed to a scientific and professional audience, although the particularity of the theme will certainly arouse the interest and curiosity of the large community of Art Nouveau enthusiasts.

This first cycle will honour the women who, as artists, intellectuals, writers and commissioners, played an active and propulsive role in the creative process of Art Nouveau. Meeting them will allow us to go far beyond the idealized image of women that 20th century iconography has given us. Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow, Caroline Voet and Marie Sèthe in Brussels, Frida Hansen in Norway have made a decisive contribution to the evolution and enrichment of this style, and with this series of lectures the RANN would like to open up new

perspectives for scientific research on the subject. Providing young researchers with new tools, helping them to identify new research perspectives, feeding the scientific debate and facilitating the exchange of good practices remain the fundamental prerogatives of our Network.

For this purpose, the main criterion on which the Scientific Committee will base the selection of the 3 speakers will be innovation.

All our members are invited to respond to this call for papers by sending to the Secretariat an abstract of no more than 500 words, in which the topic of the proposed conference as well as the main lines of the new scientific perspective that their proposal will offer to the participants are well specified. In order to ensure that all our members can actively participate in the initiative, it will also be possible to invite national experts, of their choice, to send a proposal.

Practical information :

Theme: Women of Art Nouveau

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 27 August 2021

Maximum number of characters: 500 words to send at the attention of Erika Giuliani at erika.giuliani@artnouveau-net.eu and info@artnouveau-net.eu

The conference will last 60 - 75 minutes

The conferences will take place online and a flat rate of 300 euros is provided as reimbursement for each speaker.

After a vast restoration project, Casa Darvas-La Roche has recovered its former beauty and reopened its doors in August 2020 as the first Art Nouveau Museum in Oradea. The villa was built between 1909 and 1912 by brothers László and József Vágó in the Viennese Secession style.

As a sub-section of the Oradea Museum, the Art Nouveau Museum offers exhibitions dedicated to the "Belle Époque" interiors of Oradea, video projections, as well as artists' workshops, conference rooms and space for events. The house's garden is an oasis of calm in the heart of the city and an intimate space, suitable for cultural or private events.