Henry Van de Velde

Katherine M. Kuenzli is professor of art history at Wesleyan University. Her many publications include the books Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism (2019) and The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siecle (2010). Elizabeth Tucker is a translator and editor of scholarly works in art and architectural history.

"A key figure of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture and design, Henry van de Velde's seminal role and thought has yet to emerge fully from under the shadow, notably, of those who continued his work in Weimar with the creation of the Bauhaus. This volume is a triumph of textual sleuthing, providing a generous selection of van de Velde's writings that allows scholars and students alike to witness the many facets of this cosmopolitan designer's interaction with turn-of-the-century reform movements in Belgium, Germany, and France. A figure long reduced to a small set of designs in survey books is here revealed in all his complexity and even contradictions."-Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University; "Writing and speaking fueled the modernist persona and the international career of designer Henry van de Velde. This volume, an essential companion to the existing literature, makes a case for why-and how-he emerged as one of the most significant, and difficult, figures of the twentieth century."- Amy F. Ogata, Professor of Art History, University of Southern California