Van de Velde exposed painting inside Antwerp & Paris. He painted inside neo-impressionist style; in 1889 he became a member of the Brussels-depending creative person class action "Les Vingt". From either 1892, he abandoned painting & devoted himself to decoration and architecture. His have home, Bloemenwerf around Uccle, was inspired by the English arts and crafts movement. He likewise designed interiors & piece of furniture for the influential exhibition "Art Nouveau", organized by Samuel Bing in Paris in 1895. Van de Velde was one of a foremost designer & article of furniture designers world health organization worked in the abstract style by owning curving lines that would turn into characteristic for the Art Nouveau.

around a area of the turn of the century, Van de Velde designed a total of buildings in Germany, including the Folkwang Museum in Hagen (today a building houses a Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum). He likewise became a founder of the Kunstgewerbeschule & art academy inside Weimar, the predecessor of the Bauhaus that would be developed farther by Walter Gropius. What is more, Van de Velde was closely related the Deutscher Werkbund.

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