OBJECTS Femme fatale Karel Novák (1875–1950) Portrait, before 1910 Silver-bromide print; 34.4 x 18.3 cm European Art Nouveau photography had its creative centres in Vienna and northern Germany. Karel Novák was professionally active in both places. In the early 1920s, he was appointed professor at the recently-founded State School for the Graphic Arts in Prague. His most accomplished student Josef Sudek adopted the delicacy and tender quality of Novák’s earlier compositions, as well as his feeling for the arts of the Art Nouveau era.