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The Villa Bloemenwerf, built in 1895, was Henry Van de Velde's first creation as an architect. [4] [5] The exterior of the house was inspired by the Red House in Bexleyheath, south-east London, the residence of the British writer and theorist William Morris, the founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Forecourt of Hohenhof in 2010. Hohenhof is a 1908-built Art Nouveau villa, located within Gartenstadt Hohenhagen in the city of Hagen, Germany.The villa was designed by Belgian architect Henry van de Velde as a Gesamtkunstwerk - incorporating shell, accessories, furnishings, landscape and all into the building's design.
Henry Clemens van de Velde (Dutch: [ɑ̃ːˈri vɑn də ˈvɛldə]; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) [1] 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. [ 2 ]
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The Van de Velde building has reconstructed murals by Oskar Schlemmer, originally created for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, and it is noted for the unconventional lighting of its central stairwell. [5] The Main Building was restored by the German architect Thomas van den Valentyn in 1999. It has a sinuous, elliptical Art Nouveau main staircase.
Villa Bloemenwerf, residence of Henry Van de Velde (1895) Another major figure in Brussels Art Nouveau was Henry Van de Velde (1863–1957). He began as a student of art, music and literature, but in 1893 decided, following the influence of the British textile designer William Morris, to turn to the decorative rather than fine arts.
The "horseshoe" (south gable) of the School of Arts and Crafts, designed by Henry van de Velde and built in 1905–1906 Foyer of the former Art School, today the main building of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, with an art nouveau free-winding staircase and Auguste Rodin's "Eva" at the center
The center of the museum is a building whose interior was designed by Henry van de Velde to house Karl Ernst Osthaus' art collection, open to the public as the Museum Folkwang. When Osthaus' heirs sold his art collection to the city of Essen, the city of Hagen gained possession of the empty museum building.