Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 20. (Budapest, 2001)

Katalin GELLÉR: Walter Crane and the Art Nouveau as a Hungarian Style

trend. He was the first in the row of Hungarian exhibitions of outstanding foreign artists that exerted a deep influence on the public and the artists. It was probably this exhibition of a many-sided and rich selection of works that influenced the leading Gödöllő artists to follow in the wake of the British Arts and Crafts movement as its singular interpreters rather than in the wake of the continental Art Nouveau at a time when the former "had already wilted in England", to quote Amelia Sarah Leventus.

16 A similar success to Walter Crane's works was scored by the showing of Aubrey Beardsley's works in the Museum of Applied Arts in 1907, to remain with Britain. That, however, only had a stylistic rather than theoretical impact on new Hungarian art abreast now of the "western" artistic trends.