Van de Velde's tea set, two china plates and a silver dish were badly damaged in an unfortunate accident
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Henry van de Velde
Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium. He worked in Paris with Siegfried Bing, the founder of the first gallery of Art Nouveau in Paris. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and became a major figure in…
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Born 3 April 1863 · Died 25 October 1957 · Q154083
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1957· 1 entry
Died 1957-10-25.
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1936· 1 entry
But the work would not be completed until the end of the Second World War
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1933· 1 entry
Was commissioned to design the new building for the university library (the renowned Boekentoren)
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1926· 1 entry
Today's renowned architecture and visual arts school La Cambre, under the name of "Institut supérieur des Arts décoratifs
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1925· 1 entry
Was appointed professor at the Ghent University Institute of Art History and Archaeology, where he lectured architecture and applied arts from 1926 to 1936
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1919· 1 entry
The School merged with the Weimar Art Academy to form the famous modernist art school, Bauhaus
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1918· 1 entry
“develop in the first states the most immediate hieroglyphs. Rich in lively handwriting and rich in variety of motifs, the etchings are like a diary of the painter.”
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1907· 2 entries
Co-founded the German Werkbund, an association to help improve and promote German design by establishing close relations between industry and designers
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Established the Grand-Ducal School of Arts and Crafts, under the patronage of the Grand Duke
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1899· 1 entry
Settled in Weimar, Germany, where he was employed as artistic advisor to William Ernest, Grand Duke Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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1895· 1 entry
The shop from which Art Nouveau took its name
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1892· 1 entry
Abandoned painting, devoting his time to the arts of decoration and interior design (silver and goldsmith's trade, chinaware and cutlery, fashion design, carpet and fabric design)
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1890· 2 entries
Van de Velde wrote that "there will be no place in the society of the future for anything which is not of use to everyone
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“there will be no place in the society of the future for anything which is not of use to everyone.”
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1889· 1 entry
Became a member of the Brussels-based artist group "Les XX"
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1863· 1 entry
Born 1863-04-03.
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