Henry van of Velde

See also: Van de Velde

Henry Van de Velde (born the April 3rd 1863 with Antwerp, Belgium - died the October 15th 1957 with Zurich, Swiss) was a painter, architect and decorator of Belgian interior . With Victor Horta and Paul Hankar it can be regarded as one of the founder and principal representative of the Art nouveau.

Van de Velde studied painting with Antwerp and Paris. Follower of the neo-impressionist style , in 1889, he became member of a group of established artists with Brussels, “the XX”.

Since 1892, it gave up painting and turned to decoration and architecture. Its own house, Bloemenwerf with Uccle, is of inspiration Arts and Crafts, movement English. It takes part in the construction of the Cité of Science of the Parc Léopold of Brussels. It also conceived interiors and pieces of furniture for the exposure “Art nouveau” influential, organized by Samuel Bing with Paris in 1895. Van de Velde was one of the first architects and originators of pieces of furniture which worked in the style abstracted with lines arondies which will become characteristic of the Art nouveau.

With the change of century, Van de Velde conceived many buildings in Germany, of which the Musée Folkwang with Hagen. He also became the founder of the Kunstgewerbeschule and the academy of art of Weimar, the predecessor of the Bauhaus which was developed by Walter Gropius. Moreover, Van de Velde was closely related to the Deutscher Werkbund.

During the First World War, it lived in Suisse and with the Netherlands, where it conceived the Musée Kröller-Müller with Otterlo. Of 1926 with 1936, Van de Velde was professor with the Université of Ghent, where he became the architect of the college library (called Boekentoren or Turn of the books). It also takes the direction of Cambre (Institute of higher learning of decorative arts) with Brussels.

To see

In addition to the monuments referred to above, it is necessary to quote very beautiful pieces of furniture exposed to the Musée of Orsay to Paris.

Some of its works…

  • the tedder, 1891.

  • Garden in Kalmthout , about 1892, oil on fabric, 70 X 95,5 cm, Munich, Neue Pinakotek.

External bond

  • more detailed Biography of Henry van of Velde

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