Art Nouveau masters Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Henry van de Velde shared a commonality rare among the creative figures who played central roles in that turn-of-the-century design movement.
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Both began their careers with a lifetime of Easel art-making as their goal, but ultimately redirected their energies to the primarily functional realms of architecture and the applied arts.
Art Nouveau masters Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Henry van de Velde shared a commonality rare among the creative figures who played central roles in that turn-of-the-century design movement