Henry Van de Velde

The Formula
  • Henry F. Lenning
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Abstract

“Ruskin and Morris chase ugliness out of man’s heart”, said Henry Van de Velde, “I, out of his intellect”1. And that is the essential difference between Van de Velde and the Arts and Crafts movement which immediately preceded him, the intellectual as opposed to the emotional approach to the problems of production. Whereas William Morris and his followers saw machine ugliness as an offense against mankind, Van de Velde saw it rather as an insult to logic and reason.

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  1. 1.
    Henry Van de Velde, Les Formules, p. 7.Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    Vom Neuen Stil, p. 28.Google Scholar
  3. 3.
    Die Renaissance im Modernen Kunstgewerbe, p. 110.Google Scholar
  4. 4.
    Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten, p. 172.Google Scholar
  5. 5.
    Ibid., p. 36.Google Scholar
  6. 6.
    Casteels, Maurice, Editions des Cahiers de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1937, p. 6.Google Scholar
  7. 7.
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design, p. 9 Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 1949. (The quotations from William Morris are from J. W. Mackail, The Life of William Morris, London, 1899, ii, p. 80; The Collected Works of Wm Morris, London, 1915, xxiii, p. 147; Ibid, 1914, xxii, p. 26; op. cit., Il, p. 99, respectively.).Google Scholar
  8. 8.
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 1949, p. 8.Google Scholar
  9. 9.
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. 1949, p. 9. (The quotations from Wm. Morris are from The Collected Works of Wm. Morris, xxii, p. 42 xxiii, p. 173, xxii p. 47 et seq.; Mackail op. cit., ii p. 106, respectively).Google Scholar
  10. 10.
    Van de Velde, H., Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten, Seeman Press, Leipzig, 1902, p. 106.Google Scholar
  11. 11.
    Ibid., p. 77.Google Scholar
  12. 12.
    Idem Die Renaissance im Modernen Kunstgewerbe, Berlin, 1903, p. 23. 13. —— Les Formules, p. 5.Google Scholar
  13. 14.
    —— Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten, p. 16.Google Scholar
  14. 15.
    —— Les Formules, p. 11.Google Scholar
  15. 16.
    —— Kunstgewerbliche Laienpredigten, p. 157.Google Scholar
  16. 17.
    —— Vom Neuen Stil, p. 100.Google Scholar
  17. 18.
    Ibid., p. 2.Google Scholar
  18. 19.
    Idem Les Formules, p. 24.Google Scholar
  19. 20.
    Ibid., p. 54.Google Scholar
  20. 21.
    Ibid., p. 24.Google Scholar
  21. 22.
    Ibid., p. 54.Google Scholar

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