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Born July 13, 1841 • Austria
Died April 11, 1918 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria
Movement / Style Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau initial
Henry van de Velde
Belgian architect
Hoffmann, Josef
Josef Hoffmann
Austrian architect
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius
German-American architect
Étienne-Louis Boullée: church drawing
Étienne-Louis Boullée
French architect
Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.
Jacques-François Blondel
French architect
Ray Kappe
American architect and educator
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Antoni Gaudí: Sagrada Família
Antoni Gaudí
Spanish architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect and designer
Victor, Baron Horta
Belgian architect
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
British architect and designer
Joseph Olbrich
German architect
Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris
Hector Guimard
French architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Austrian architect
Ivan Illich
Austrian philosopher and priest
Hans Hollein
Austrian architect
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian spiritualist
Richard Joseph Neutra
Austrian-American architect
Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt
Austrian architect
Matthias Zdarsky
Austrian athlete

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