Henry Van de Velde
Born April 3, 1863 in Antwerp, died October 15, 1957 in Oberägeri (Switzerland).
Van de Velde began his artistic life as a painter, then turned to the decorative arts and even embroidery-tapestry.
In 1894 he designed his personal house in Uccle (Bloemenwerf), which would be his very first architectural achievement. Van de Velde is considered, with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, as one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium, a style that he quickly rejected to move towards modernism and the new architectural theories of the entre- two wars. However, no real Art Nouveau building is known to him in Belgium.
From 1926 until his retirement in 1936, he headed the Ecole de La Cambre.
It was during this period that he signed his latest architectural creation, the Wolfers House, one of the most astonishing modernist residences in Brussels.
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