Henry van de Velde

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book_author_name: 
Katherine M. Kuenzli
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Hardback
publisher: 
Yale University Press
published_date: 
02/07/2019
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9780300226669
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Books > Art, Fashion & Photography > Art & design > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists & art monographs
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Katherine M. Kuenzli|Hardback|Yale University Press|02/07/2019
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9780300226669
Book Description: 
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 designs for homes, museums, and theaters received international recognition. The artist, often associated with the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, developed a style of abstraction that he taught in his School of Applied Arts in Weimar, the immediate precursor of and model for the Bauhaus. As a leading member of the German Werkbund, he helped shaped the fields of modern architecture and design. This long-awaited book, the first major work on van de Velde in English, firmly positions him as one of the twentieth century's most influential artists and an essential voice within the modern movement.

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