Henry van de Velde : designing modernism / Katherine M. Kuenzli.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-219) and index.

Chapter 1. A "scientific" aesthetic : Neo-Impressionism, the applied arts, and ornament in Brussels -- Chapter 2. The birth of the Modernist art museum : the Folkwang Museum and the gesamtkunstwerk in Hagen -- Chapter 3. The workshop as laboratory : Van de Velde's pedagogy in Weimar -- Chapter 4. Industrial art and the New Style : Van de Velde at the 1906 Dresden Applied Arts Exhibition -- Chapter 5. Architecture, individualism, and nation : the Werkbund Theater building in Cologne -- Chapter 6. After 1914 : Van de Velde's work in the Netherlands and Belgium -- Epilogue. Van de Velde's legacy to Modernism.

The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthetic that transcended boundaries between the arts and between nations through his work in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Van de Velde's internationally recognized designs for homes, museums, and theaters are often associated with Art Nouveau and the Jugendstil; after 1900, he helped define the fields of modern architecture and design in the German Werkbund. He also laid the groundwork for the Bauhaus, which grew out of the applied and fine art schools he designed in Weimar. When van de Velde was exiled from Germany after the outbreak of World War I, he recommended that Walter Gropius succeed him as the director of the school. This long-awaited book, the first major work on van de Velde in English, positions him firmly as one of the 20th century's most influential practitioners of design and architecture and a crucial voice within the modern movement.

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