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Henry van de Velde Belgian architect and teacher who ranks with his compatriot Victor Horta as an originator of the Art Nouveau style, characterized by long sinuous lines derived from naturalistic forms.
1863 3 April: Henry van de Velde born in Antwerp
1880 Studied painting
1892 Switched to the applied and decorative arts
1895 Exhibition in Paris, Title: Art Nouveau
1897 Exhibition in Dresden
1901 Van de Velde moved to Berlin
1902 Invited to Weimar, founded arts and crafts seminar
1907 Member of the Deutscher Werkbund
1863 3 April: Henry van de Velde born in Antwerp
1880 Studied painting
1892 Switched to the applied and decorative arts
1895 Exhibition in Paris, Title: Art Nouveau
1897 Exhibition in Dresden
1901 Van de Velde moved to Berlin
1902 Invited to Weimar, founded arts and crafts seminar
1907 Member of the Deutscher Werkbund
1908 House Hohe Pappeln (Lofty Poplars), Weimar. The second home van de Velde built for himself. Again a popular venue for artists and art lovers. When he sold the house after the first world war, all he received for it in real terms was 2.20 guilders because of the galloping inflation in Germany. The house has been restored since German unification and is open to the public.
1908 Moved to House Lofty Poplars, Weimar
1913 Designed theatre for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition
1915 Resigned as director of the School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar
1918 Van de Velde moved to Switzerland
1926 Returned to Brussels
1935 Art Adviser to the Belgian cabinet
1957 15 October: Henry van de Velde died in Zurich
1863 3 April: Henry van de Velde, the son of an Antwerp chemist, was born as the 7th of 8 children.
1880Studied painting in Antwerp.
1884Continued to study painting in Paris.
1889Worked for the weekly periodical ‘L’Art Moderne’.
1892Van de Velde abandoned painting, preferring to work for the linkage of the aesthetic with the practical and utilitarian. He created La Veillée des anges/Angels Wake (tapestry 1892-93, now in the Museum Bellerive in Zurich).
Engelswache (Angel's wake), 1892
1893 Taught at Antwerp Art Academy.
1894 Married Maria Sèthe.
1894 Taught at Université Nouvelle in Brussels. 1st course: Industrial Arts and Ornament.
1895 Designed his own house, Bloemenwerf, in Uccle, Brussels.
1895 Exhibition mounted by Siegfried Bing in Paris, entitled Art Nouveau. (Bing, proprietor of a Paris gallery, coined the term ‘Art Nouvean’).
1896 Bloemenwerf House finished.
1897 Birth of van de Velde’s eldest daughter, Nele.
1897 Art and crafts exhibition in Dresden. Van de Velde’s exhibits – the same he had shown in Paris at Bing’s Art Nouvean exhibition – Breakthrough for van de Velde in Germany.
1897 Founded the workshop ‘Société van de Velde’, based at Ixerres, Brussels, where the furniture he was commissioned to design was to be built. Partners in the firm included the painter Curt Herrmann and the industrialist Eberhard von Bodenhausen, who commissioned van de Velde to decorate his Berlin flat.
1897 Van de Velde accepted a commission to decorate the Berlin flat of Harry, Count Kessler (diplomat and writer) in Köthener Str.
1898 Established ‘Van de Velde GmbH’ in Berlin. The large number of commissions he received from Germany encouraged van de Velde to found this, his second firm. In addition, pieces of furniture were to be made in limited editions.
1898 Posters, packaging, advertising for Tropon, makers of foodstuffs in Cologne-Mühlheim. The first commission that gave him a chance to practise his skills as an artist.
Tropon Poster, 1898
1899 Writing for the Belgian periodical Revue Générale was followed by numerous published writings and several books. Most of these are theoretical treatises, many dealing with art education.
1899 Commissioned to design an art salerooms in Paris, ‘Maison Moderne’ for the art historian Julius Meier-Graefe, who, with Siegfried Bing, was his most important early mentor and patron.
1899 First furniture catalogue of the van de Velde workshop printed.
1900 Karl Ernst Osthaus (a banker from Hagen, Westphalia) visited Bloemenwerf. He commissioned van de Velde to design the interior of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen. The Osthaus family lived above the Museum.
1901 The van de Velde family moved to Berlin.
1901 Decorated Director Stern’s flat.
1902 Van de Velde’s invitation to Weimar as art adviser for industrial design and crafts to the Grand Duke was arranged by Harry, Count Kessler.Van de Velde moved to Weimar.
1902 Van de Velde founded the crafts seminar in Weimar - precursor of the School of Arts and Crafts - It in turn was the predecessor of the Bauhaus. It served as a studio where ‘craftsmen and industrialists could look at new models and assimilate them and improve their own products’ (under van de Velde’s supervision).
1902 His book, ‘Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten’ [Arts and Crafts Sermons by a Lay Preacher] published in Leipzig.
1903 Harry, Count Kessler museum director in Weimar.
1903 Louise Dumont, a famous early 20th century tragic actress, planned the building of a theatre in Weimar with van de Velde. Funding was available. The Grand Duke was merely supposed to place a building site at the disposal of the planners. The director of the Weimar Court Theatre, however, used his influence at court to block the project.
1903 Van de Velde appointed professor.
1904 Villa Esche built in Chemnitz.
1906-08 Villa Hohenhof planned and built for Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen (Osthaus: ‘... complete planning signed and sealed on my desk.’).
1906 After differences with the Grand Duke, Kessler resigned from his post. Van de Velde wanted to follow him - Kessler persuaded him to stay on. Van de Velde, however, limited his activities henceforth to building and then heading the School of Arts and Crafts.
1907 The Deutscher Werkbund founded. Van de Velde felt strong ties to the association. Became a member of the board of directors.
Portait Harry Count Kessler by Edvard Munch
1907 Publication of van de Velde’s Book: ‘Vom neuen Stil: Der ‚Laienpredigten’ zweiter Teil’ [On the New Style: The Lay Preacher, Part II] (Insel-Verlag). In it, he outlined his programme as follows:‘Recognising the meaning, the form, the purpose of all things in the materialist modern world with the same truthfulness with which the Greeks, among so many other things, recognised the meaning, form and purpose of the column. It is not easy to find the precise meaning and the precise form for the simplest of things nowadays.We shall still need a great deal of time to recognise the precise form for a table, a chair, a house’
1908 Van de Velde moved into Haus Hohe Pappeln (Lofty Poplars House), the house he designed for himself outside Weimar.
1912 Publication of van de Velde’s ‘Amo’ (Insel-Verlag) – quotation:‘You shall understand this form and construction of all objects only in the sense of their most stringent logic and justification for being.You shall accommodate and subordinate these forms and constructions to the essential use of the material which you employ.And, should the desire animate you to embellish these forms and constructions, only yield to this desire in so far as you can respect the rights and the essential appearance of these forms and constructions and retain them!’
Van de Velde with family in front of house 'Hohe Pappeln'
1913 The Deutscher Werkbund commissioned van de Velde to build a theatre for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne. The commission is controversial because of van de Velde’s foreign nationality. Van de Velde: ‘Without the support of the Mayor of Cologne, Dr. Konrad Adenauer ... I should never have managed to build the Werkbund Theatre.’
1914 The theatre opened in July. In September, however, the outbreak of the Great War closed its doors for ever.
1914Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne. Ten theses advanced by Hermann Muthesius on the work of the Werkbund – ten antitheses advanced by van de Velde and others. Muthesius: ‘2. Only through typing, which should be understood as the result of healthy concentration, can a generally acceptable, sure sense of taste be again introduced.’Van de Velde: ‘1. As long as there are still artists in the Werkbund and as long as they can still exert an influence on its fate, they will protest against all proposals for a canon or typing. The artist is quintessentially an ardent individualist, a free, spontaneous creator ...’
1914 In July van de Velde handed in his letter of resignation to the Grand Duke in Weimar. Conservative forces at the Court were increasingly preventing realisation of his ideas.
1915Van de Velde resigned as head of the School of Arts and Crafts, recommending Walter Gropius as his successor.The School of Arts and Crafts became the core of the Bauhaus (its name from 1919).
1917-18 Amidst the upheavals of war van de Velde left Germany for Switzerland.
1919 Contact with the Dutch collectors and patrons of the arts, Hélène Kröller-Müller and her husband, Anton Kröller.
Portrait of Henry van de Velde by E.L. Kirchner
1922 House de Tent in Wassenaar.
1924 The economic crisis forced Kröller to dismiss van de Velde.
1925 Return to Brussels. Appointed director of the Institut Supérieur des Arts décoratifs (ISAD).
1933 The Dutch government declared itself willing to finance the building of the Kröller-Müller Museum in De Hoge Veluwe - however, only a much simplified design.
1935 Van de Velde became an art adviser to the Belgian cabinet.
1938 Inauguration of the first rooms of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
1947 Van de Velde moved to Switzerland to retire at Oberägeri, where he wrote his autobiography, ‘Die Geschichte meines Lebens’ [The Story of My Life] (Piper, Munich 1962).
1957 On 15 October Henry van de Velde died in Zurich.
1908 Moved to House Lofty Poplars, Weimar
1913 Designed theatre for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition
1915 Resigned as director of the School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar
1918 Van de Velde moved to Switzerland
1926 Returned to Brussels
1935 Art Adviser to the Belgian cabinet
1957 15 October: Henry van de Velde died in Zurich
1863 3 April: Henry van de Velde, the son of an Antwerp chemist, was born as the 7th of 8 children.1880Studied painting in Antwerp.
1884Continued to study painting in Paris.
1889Worked for the weekly periodical ‘L’Art Moderne’.
1892Van de Velde abandoned painting, preferring to work for the linkage of the aesthetic with the practical and utilitarian. He created La Veillée des anges/Angels Wake (tapestry 1892-93, now in the Museum Bellerive in Zurich).
Engelswache (Angel's wake), 1892
1893 Taught at Antwerp Art Academy.
1894 Married Maria Sèthe.
1894 Taught at Université Nouvelle in Brussels. 1st course: Industrial Arts and Ornament.
1895 Designed his own house, Bloemenwerf, in Uccle, Brussels.
1895 Exhibition mounted by Siegfried Bing in Paris, entitled Art Nouveau. (Bing, proprietor of a Paris gallery, coined the term ‘Art Nouvean’).
1896 Bloemenwerf House finished.
1897 Birth of van de Velde’s eldest daughter, Nele.
1897 Art and crafts exhibition in Dresden. Van de Velde’s exhibits – the same he had shown in Paris at Bing’s Art Nouvean exhibition – Breakthrough for van de Velde in Germany.
1897 Founded the workshop ‘Société van de Velde’, based at Ixerres, Brussels, where the furniture he was commissioned to design was to be built. Partners in the firm included the painter Curt Herrmann and the industrialist Eberhard von Bodenhausen, who commissioned van de Velde to decorate his Berlin flat.
1897 Van de Velde accepted a commission to decorate the Berlin flat of Harry, Count Kessler (diplomat and writer) in Köthener Str.
1898 Established ‘Van de Velde GmbH’ in Berlin. The large number of commissions he received from Germany encouraged van de Velde to found this, his second firm. In addition, pieces of furniture were to be made in limited editions.
1898 Posters, packaging, advertising for Tropon, makers of foodstuffs in Cologne-Mühlheim. The first commission that gave him a chance to practise his skills as an artist.
Tropon Poster, 1898
1899 Writing for the Belgian periodical Revue Générale was followed by numerous published writings and several books. Most of these are theoretical treatises, many dealing with art education.
1899 Commissioned to design an art salerooms in Paris, ‘Maison Moderne’ for the art historian Julius Meier-Graefe, who, with Siegfried Bing, was his most important early mentor and patron.
1899 First furniture catalogue of the van de Velde workshop printed.
1900 Karl Ernst Osthaus (a banker from Hagen, Westphalia) visited Bloemenwerf. He commissioned van de Velde to design the interior of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen. The Osthaus family lived above the Museum.
1901 The van de Velde family moved to Berlin.
1901 Decorated Director Stern’s flat.
1902 Van de Velde’s invitation to Weimar as art adviser for industrial design and crafts to the Grand Duke was arranged by Harry, Count Kessler.Van de Velde moved to Weimar.
1902 Van de Velde founded the crafts seminar in Weimar - precursor of the School of Arts and Crafts - It in turn was the predecessor of the Bauhaus. It served as a studio where ‘craftsmen and industrialists could look at new models and assimilate them and improve their own products’ (under van de Velde’s supervision).
1902 His book, ‘Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten’ [Arts and Crafts Sermons by a Lay Preacher] published in Leipzig.
1903 Harry, Count Kessler museum director in Weimar.
1903 Louise Dumont, a famous early 20th century tragic actress, planned the building of a theatre in Weimar with van de Velde. Funding was available. The Grand Duke was merely supposed to place a building site at the disposal of the planners. The director of the Weimar Court Theatre, however, used his influence at court to block the project.
1903 Van de Velde appointed professor.
1904 Villa Esche built in Chemnitz.
1906-08 Villa Hohenhof planned and built for Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen (Osthaus: ‘... complete planning signed and sealed on my desk.’).
1906 After differences with the Grand Duke, Kessler resigned from his post. Van de Velde wanted to follow him - Kessler persuaded him to stay on. Van de Velde, however, limited his activities henceforth to building and then heading the School of Arts and Crafts.
1907 The Deutscher Werkbund founded. Van de Velde felt strong ties to the association. Became a member of the board of directors.
Portait Harry Count Kessler by Edvard Munch
1907 Publication of van de Velde’s Book: ‘Vom neuen Stil: Der ‚Laienpredigten’ zweiter Teil’ [On the New Style: The Lay Preacher, Part II] (Insel-Verlag). In it, he outlined his programme as follows:‘Recognising the meaning, the form, the purpose of all things in the materialist modern world with the same truthfulness with which the Greeks, among so many other things, recognised the meaning, form and purpose of the column. It is not easy to find the precise meaning and the precise form for the simplest of things nowadays.We shall still need a great deal of time to recognise the precise form for a table, a chair, a house’
1908 Van de Velde moved into Haus Hohe Pappeln (Lofty Poplars House), the house he designed for himself outside Weimar.
1912 Publication of van de Velde’s ‘Amo’ (Insel-Verlag) – quotation:‘You shall understand this form and construction of all objects only in the sense of their most stringent logic and justification for being.You shall accommodate and subordinate these forms and constructions to the essential use of the material which you employ.And, should the desire animate you to embellish these forms and constructions, only yield to this desire in so far as you can respect the rights and the essential appearance of these forms and constructions and retain them!’
Van de Velde with family in front of house 'Hohe Pappeln'
1913 The Deutscher Werkbund commissioned van de Velde to build a theatre for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne. The commission is controversial because of van de Velde’s foreign nationality. Van de Velde: ‘Without the support of the Mayor of Cologne, Dr. Konrad Adenauer ... I should never have managed to build the Werkbund Theatre.’
1914 The theatre opened in July. In September, however, the outbreak of the Great War closed its doors for ever.
1914Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne. Ten theses advanced by Hermann Muthesius on the work of the Werkbund – ten antitheses advanced by van de Velde and others. Muthesius: ‘2. Only through typing, which should be understood as the result of healthy concentration, can a generally acceptable, sure sense of taste be again introduced.’Van de Velde: ‘1. As long as there are still artists in the Werkbund and as long as they can still exert an influence on its fate, they will protest against all proposals for a canon or typing. The artist is quintessentially an ardent individualist, a free, spontaneous creator ...’
1914 In July van de Velde handed in his letter of resignation to the Grand Duke in Weimar. Conservative forces at the Court were increasingly preventing realisation of his ideas.
1915Van de Velde resigned as head of the School of Arts and Crafts, recommending Walter Gropius as his successor.The School of Arts and Crafts became the core of the Bauhaus (its name from 1919).
1917-18 Amidst the upheavals of war van de Velde left Germany for Switzerland.
1919 Contact with the Dutch collectors and patrons of the arts, Hélène Kröller-Müller and her husband, Anton Kröller.
Portrait of Henry van de Velde by E.L. Kirchner
1922 House de Tent in Wassenaar.
1924 The economic crisis forced Kröller to dismiss van de Velde.
1925 Return to Brussels. Appointed director of the Institut Supérieur des Arts décoratifs (ISAD).
1933 The Dutch government declared itself willing to finance the building of the Kröller-Müller Museum in De Hoge Veluwe - however, only a much simplified design.
1935 Van de Velde became an art adviser to the Belgian cabinet.
1938 Inauguration of the first rooms of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
1947 Van de Velde moved to Switzerland to retire at Oberägeri, where he wrote his autobiography, ‘Die Geschichte meines Lebens’ [The Story of My Life] (Piper, Munich 1962).
1957 On 15 October Henry van de Velde died in Zurich.
Henry van de Velde foi um arquitecto designer e pintor ligado ao movimento estético conhecido como art nouveau. Nasceu em 3 de abril de 1863 na Bélgica e faleceu em 1957. É considerado um dos principais representantes da art nouveau.
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