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Victor Horta was an architect who designed many art nouveau buildings, many in Brussels. I just visited his home-turned-museum a week ago and it was really something. I might scan a postcard and post it here. They have a lot of fine art nouveau style buildings in Brussels which was a nice surprise. I'm more into the architecture side of the movement, although I really like the fine art as well.
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Re: Victor Horta
Thu, January 8, 2004 - 2:15 PMSame here about the architecture side of the movement, love Victor Horta! Please do scan them in.
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Thu, January 8, 2004 - 8:20 PMBeautiful museum..but you were suprised that Brussels had ArtNouveau?Brussels and Barcelona we're the main cities for the movement!! Ok let's not forget Paris! -
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 3:46 AM...And let's not forget Vienna. Yes, I've come to learn that Brussels was major in the movement. I had been there 2 or 3 times previously but never looked into that. The other big surprise that I've heard mentioned is that Glasgow was major as well. What do I know? Well, I do know that the unsung gem of the Art Nouveau movement in terms of architecture is Helsinki. Believe it!
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Re: Victor Horta
Fri, January 9, 2004 - 10:46 AMI'm not that familiar with Horta, honestly. Please show the scans, when you do them! -
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Fri, January 9, 2004 - 11:56 AMArt nouveau links
www.artnouveau-net.com/englis...ut.html
Horta's site
www.hortamuseum.be/
Any trip to Brussels is not complete without the tour of this museum.Never forget the thousands of other examples literaly everywhere in the city,bars,architechture,hotels,ect. -
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Re: Victor Horta
Tue, January 13, 2004 - 9:30 AMOh, thank you very much for the links!
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Re: Victor Horta
Sat, January 10, 2004 - 5:08 AMNow there is one photo of the museum posted. Actually, Brussels doesn't take very good care of it's old buildings. One of Paul Hankar's Art Nouveau buildings was even EMPTY - as in, no one living there or using the space. The "Old England" building which is now the music instrument museum was only designated protected in the '90s. No city I have visited or heard about has Art Nouveau buildings all over the place and Brussels is no exception. They are there but you have to go seeking. -
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Re: Victor Horta
Sun, May 28, 2006 - 1:24 PMBrussels had a lot more art nouveau houses, but most of them were tore down, even from Victor Horta... It's terrible! Even nowadays a lot of the still existing houses aren't protected.
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