short biography

Henry van de Velde (1863 born in Antwerpen / Belgium, 1957 died in Zurich / Switzerland) was an architect and designer and a pioneer of organic architecture and a theoretician of Art Nouveau. 1907 he co-founded 'Deutscher Werkbund' together with Hermann Muthesius und Friedrich Naumann. 1925-36 he was a Professor of Architecture at the University of Ghent and in 1926 he founded the Institut supérieur des Arts Décoratifs, Brussels.

Art Nouveau, typographic work, posters, interiors, furniture, dining set, lamps

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buildings and interior design

1895 own house Bloemenwerf, Uccle
1900-02 co-planning and interior of Folkwang Museum, Hagen (today Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum)
1903 Villa Esche, Chemnitz; Interiors of Nietzsche Archive, Weimar
1911 Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar (today Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
1907 own house "height poplars", Weimar
1914 Theater der Werkbundausstellung, Cologne
1937-54 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

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collection/s

Henry van de Velde-Museum, Chemnitz Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf Indianapolis Museum of Art KMSKA Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerpen Kunsthalle Bremen Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Musée d´Ixelles Petit Palais, Genf Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Schlossmuseum Weimar Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
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architect

Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum
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