The founder of the Art Nouveau style in Scotland Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) (36 works)

14 April 2012

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868, Glasgow - 10 December 1928, London) was a Scottish architect, artist and designer, the founder of the Art Nouveau style in Scotland.

Born in Glasgow, he studied at Alan Glen's High School from 1877 to 1884, and upon graduation attended an evening course at the Glasgow School of Art. He then studied with the architect John Hutchinson and from 1889 worked as a draftsman for the firm of John Honeman and Keppie in Glasgow. In 1904 he became a co-owner of this company. In 1900 he married Margaret Macdonald, also a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, with whom he worked. Since 1923, C. Mackintosh devoted almost all his attention to painting.

Charles Mackintosh developed a special decorative style in which geometric elements are connected with each other by swaying, scattering lines, which at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries was typical of European decorative art. His works, presented at the World Exhibition in Turin and at the Vienna Secession Exhibition, brought C. Mackintosh international recognition. The master’s ability to connect his ideas of symbolism with classical architectural education aroused such admiration from his contemporaries that art critics spoke of a new movement in art - “Mackintoshism.”