Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 31 December 1849, in St Gall; died 1921, in Planegg.
Architect, painter, decorative designer, theorist. Designs (furniture/fabrics/metal objects/ceramics).
Jugendstil.
From 1868 to 1871 Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas was a student of architecture with Gottfried Sempers in Zurich. After graduating he abandoned architecture while he was living in Frankfurt, to go and train as a painter in Munich (...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1898, in St-Nazaire; died 1964, in Étables-sur-Mer.
Painter, engraver (wood), illustrator, ethnologist. Genre scenes, local scenes, seascapes. Designs for jewellery, furniture.
Ar Seiz Breur.
René Yves Creston trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes in 1919, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 12 April 1871, in Berlin; died 15 April 1925, in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland).
Draughtsman, architect, decorative artist, designer, illustrator, author. Furniture, jewellery, lamps, art objects.
Jugendstil.
Deutscher Werkbund.
In Munich, August Endell studied philosophy, art history, aesthetics and psychology, notably a course run by Theodor Lipp on the psychological effect of the perception of lines and forms. There, in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 16 November 1892, in London; died 1957.
Painter, engraver, furniture designer, writer. Genre scenes, landscapes, architectural scenes.
Eric Hesketh Hubbard studied at Croydon School of Art, South Western Polytechnic and the Westminster School of Art. He became an accomplished printmaker, specialising in woodcuts and linocuts. Many of his works explore the life of gypsies and the fairground....
British, 19th century, male.
Born 24 March 1834, in Walthamstow (Essex); died 3 October 1896, at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, London.
Painter, draughtsman, designer, typographer, poet, architect. Designs (furniture/wallpapers/fabrics/stained glass windows).
Symbolism, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau.
Pre-Raphaelite.
William Morris the son of a successful City of London bill-broker, grew up in Walthamstow, on the edge of Epping Forest, and was educated at Marlborough College, in Wiltshire....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 7 April 1876, in Rostock; died 1 January 1950, in Berlin.
Architect, draughtsman, designer, writer. Furniture.
Heinrich Tessenow first studied to be a carpenter at Neustadt/Mecklenburg and at Leipzig before studying architecture at the Technical High School in Munic., from 1900 to 1903...
