Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Biography

Born with Glasgow, it has started as architect with John Hutchinson but it has as followed course of Article It is at this time as he initially met Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (with which he married in 1900), his/her sister Frances MacDonald and Herbert McNair. The group of artists known as “The Four” exposed to Liege for the first time in 1895, in Glasgow, London ( Arts and Crafts Society in 1896) and Vienna. These exposures helped to establish the reputation of Mackintosh. The style, called “Glasgow” was exposed in Europe and influenced the movement Art nouveau Viennese known as " Sezessionsstil " (in English, The Secession ) at the time of its presentation at the time of Vienna Secession Exhibition around 1900.

It joined a company of architects, Honeyman & Keppie, in 1889 and developed its own style: a contrast between strong right angles and decorative reasons for floral inspiration with soft curves, i.e the reason Mackintosh Pink , among some traditional Scottish architectural references. The project which helped it to make its international reputation was the Glasgow School off Art (1897 - 1909)

Among other architectural work:

The Light House, old offices of the newspaper The Herald reconverted today in museum of architecture and design, Glasgow, 1893 with 1895
Public Martyrs' School, Glasgow, 1895 with 1897
The Glasgow School off Art, Glasgow, 1897 with 1899
Queen' S Cross-country race church, Glasgow, 1897 with 1899
Ruchill Church Hall, Glasgow, 1898 with 1899
Windyhill House, Kilmacolm, 1899 with 1901
Old offices of the Daily Record , Glasgow, 1900 with 1904
House for year Art To coil, Glasgow, 1900 with 1901
Hill House, Helensburgh, 1902 with 1904 (National Trust for Scotland)
The Rooms Willow, so known like Miss Cranston' S Tea Rooms, 1903 with 1904
Scotland Street School, Glasgow, 1903 with 1906
The Mackintosh House (Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow)
Holy Trinity Church, Bridge off Allan, Stirling
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Craigie Hall, Glasgow
Royal The Highland Fusiliers Museum, Glasgow
78 Derngate, Northampton (for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke)
5 The Drive, Northampton (for the brother-in-law of Basset hound-Lowke)

Mackintosh also worked like Décorateur of interior and creator of piece of furniture S, Textile S and Ferronnerie. Most of its work mixes its style suitable for that of his wife, more sliding ring and floral, thus raising its more formal and rectilinear work. Like its contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, the architectural designs of Mackintosh often include important specifications for the detail, the decoration and the furniture of its buildings. Its work was exposed to the Secession Exhibition of Vienna in 1900.

Although enough not very popular in its native Scotland, Mackintosh was a relative success outside the the United Kingdom and the majority of its most ambitious designs were not carried out, like those of the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901. On the other hand, it carried out the Haus für eines Kunstfreundes ( Maison for an art lover ) in the same year. It took part in the contest launched for the construction of the Cathédrale of Liverpool in 1903 but lost vis-a-vis Gilles Gilbert Scott. Later in its life, discouraged by architecture, Mackintosh worked much as painter landscape designer, making many landscapes and studies of flowers (often in collaboration with Margaret, whose Mackintosh took the style gradually) in the village of Walberswick in the Suffolk (city in which the couple settled in 1914). In 1923, they came to spend their holidays to Roussillon, a visit which was prolonged for the remainder of their life. They lived during the summer 1924 in the suburb of Collioure, and during the winters 1925 1926 and 1926 1927 with the hotel the Trade at Port-Vendres. Its wish was that its ashes are dispersed, after its death in water of Port-Vendres, place and subject of many its works, where it passed with Margaret, years among happiest of its life. He died in 1928, ruined.

The designs of Mackintosh gained in popularity in the decades following its death. Its Maison for an art lover was finally built in the Bellahouston park of Glasgow in 1996 and the Université of Glasgow (which has the major part of its work of painter landscape designer) rebuilt a house with terrace designed by Mackintosh and furnished it with work with Margaret. The Glasgow School off Art building (now famous “The Mackintosh Building”) is usually quoted by the architectural critics like one of the most elegant buildings of the United Kingdom. The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society tries to encourage a greater knowledge of the work of Mackintosh as architect, artist, designer and important originator.

External bonds

Site of the '' Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society '' (in English)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Pictorial History
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Chronology

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