In München, for instance it lead to interesting developments. And it is a pity that this has always been a bit underexposed in the overall Art Nouveau history.
Hermann Obrist was a man who had - literally- visions, which he tried to express in art.
After his studies Natural science and Medicines he went by and by to the practising of applied arts. He concentrated on the helix, a screw line. It exists in shell forms, lianas, vine creepers, tornadoes, water vortexes and astronomic constellations.
Doing this, his aim was not to copy Nature, but to record the dynamics of it.
To express the energy that he monitored, beyond the vigour and the motion.
This lead to remarkable results at divergent domains as ceramics, furniture design, tapestries, metalwork and monumental fountains.
Together with Von Debschitz, Obrist founded a school for applied arts. This was an institute that distinguished it selves by its reform activities and
.. the fact that there were women teachers. That was rather unusual until then.