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Henry van de Velde was born on April 3, 1863 in Antwerp, Belgium, the son of an apothecary.
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Henry van de Velde was born on April 3, 1863 in Antwerp, Belgium, the son of an apothecary.
From 1881 to 1884 Henry studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Charles Verlat and then with E. A. Carolus-Duran in Paris (1884-1885).
In 1889 Van de Velde joined a group of artists known as Les XX in Brussels and, with the publication of his lecture Déblaiement d'art (1894), emerged as the group's spokesman. Influenced by the theories of William Morris and the English Arts and Crafts movement, he abandoned painting and turned his attention to architecture and the applied arts. The building of his own house, Bloemenwerf, at Uccle near Brussels (1895) marked the beginning of his new career. For this house he designed all the furniture and appointments.
In 1900 Van de Velde moved to Germany. He built the School of Applied Arts in Weimar (1904-1906), the predecessor of the Bauhaus, and was its director until World War I. He designed the Theater Building (1914; destroyed) at the exhibition of the Werkbund, or German association of architects and designers, held in Cologne. Throughout this period he was also busy designing a wide variety of useful objects, from bookbindings to earrings, dresses, ceramics, tableware, and furniture, all in the curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau, and theorizing about the role of the applied arts in a series of publications such as Die Renaissance im modernen Kunstgewerbe (1901), Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten (1902), and Der neue Stil (1907).
From 1917 on Van de Velde lived in Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland. From 1926 to 1936 he was the director of the Institute Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs in Brussels and professor of architecture at the University of Ghent, for which he designed the library (1936). Other important commissions from this period include the Kröller-Müller Museum at Otterlo, Netherlands (1937-1953), and the Belgian pavilions for the World's Fair in Paris (1937) and in New York (1939). He spent the last decade of his life in retirement at Oberägeri, Switzerland, where he wrote his memoirs. He died in Zurich on October 27, 1957.
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