Art Nouveau in Alcoy,, as one of the main focuses of the Valencian Art Nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in Alcoy, Valencian Community, in Spain. Its main form of expression was in architecture, but many other arts were involved, and especially the design and the decorative arts, which were particularly important, especially in their role as support to architecture. Although Art Nouveau was part of a general trend that emerged in Europe around the turn of the 20th century, in Alcoy the trend acquired its own unique personality in the context of spectacular urban and industrial development. It is equivalent to a number of other fin de siècle art movements going by the names of Art Nouveau in France and Belgium, Jugendstil in Germany, Sezession in Austria-Hungary, Liberty style in Italy and Modern or Glasgow Style in Scotland. The Art Nouveau was active in Alcoy from roughly 1899 to 1915. The Modernisme movement in Alcoy is best known for its architectural expression, especially in the works of the architects Vicente Pascual Pastor and Timoteo Briet Montaud, but was also significant in sculpture and painting. Notable art nouveau painters from Alcoy include Fernando Cabrera Cantó, Francisco Laporta Valor, Emilio Sala, Adolfo Morrió, Edmundo Jordá and José Mataix Monllor. A notable art nouveau sculptor from Alcoy was Lorenzo Ridaura Gosálbez. In the year 2010 Alcoy was included in the Art Nouveau European Route, an association of local governments and non-governmental institutions for the international promotion and protection of Art Nouveau heritage.
Vicente Pascual Pastor: The art nouveau style of Vicente Pascual will have a few exuberant characteristics and a direct influence of the French and Belgian art nouveau.
Timoteo Briet Montaud: His art nouveau style will be contained, rather formally and especially with a great influence of the Austrian art nouveau movement Secession, influence that it is present in all his art nouveau works.
They were not the only art nouveau architects who formed his stamp in Alcoy, but they are, undoubtedly, the main. On having been only two architects those who would realize the great majority of works of the Alcoy's art nouveau, it could seem that the relation of works are just a few. Both architects developed approximately sixty art nouveau constructions of all kind in Alcoy, which provides a precise enough idea of the special strength of the Alcoy's industrial bourgeois. Both architects have in common his formation in Barcelona and the contemporary being to the architects of the Valencian Art Nouveau and the Catalan Modernisme, but also the two will exercise practically all his professional career in Alcoy, where the architectural art nouveau will receive special relevancy thanks to their art and their works. Other local architects or engineers that have Art nouveau works in Alcoy are:
Jorge Vilaplana Carbonell: Master builder of eclectic style with an Art nouveau building at avenida País Valencia 30,.
José Cort Merita: Engineer who constructed the factory of calle Agrees 8 together with the architect Vicente Pascual Pastor,.
José Abad Carbonell: Municipal engineer, author of the art nouveau building of the El Molinar fountain,, in the suburbs of Alcoy.
Joaquín Aracil Aznar: author of the kiosk of Art Nouveau style at the Plaza de la Constitución in 1917, work nowadays disappeared.
