Hermann Obrist

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Hermann Obrist (born May 23, 1863 at Kilchberg (near Zürich), Switzerland; died February 26, 1927, Munich, Germany) was a German sculptor of the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) movement.

Obrist commissioned his friend August Endell to design his studio in Munich, built in 1897 and destroyed in 1944.

Obrist's most famous and influential work was the design for an 1892 embroidered wall hanging called "Cyclamen". It featured a series of elegant, looping curves, described as "whiplash curves", and became a seminal work of the Art Nouveau movement.