Charles Rennie Mackintosh 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born the June 7th, 1868 in Glasgow and died the December 10th, 1928 in London, was a British architect and designer, part of the Arts and Crafts movement, he was the principal representative of the new Art in Scotland.

He studied architecture with John Hutchinson but he took evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born the June 7th, 1868 in Glasgow and died the December 10th, 1928 in London, was a British architect and designer, part of the Arts and Crafts movement, he was the principal representative of the new Art in Scotland.

He studied architecture with John Hutchinson but he took evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art ("Glasgow School of Art"). There he met Margaret MacDonald (whom he married in 1900), her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair, the future husband of the latter. This group of artists, known as "The Four," exhibited in Liege for the first time in 1895 in Glasgow, London (Arts and Crafts Society in 1896) and Vienna. These exhibitions help establish Mackintosh's reputation. The style, nicknamed "Glasgow" became known in Europe through exhibitions, and is particularly well received by the Viennese Secession at the exhibition organized by it in Vienna in 1900.

Mackintosh also worked as an interior decorator and furniture designer, textiles and metalwork. The bulk of his work mixing his own style to that of his wife, more flexible and floral, enhancing its more formal, rectilinear work. Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright architectural projects Mackintosh often contain important information regarding the details of the decoration and furniture of its buildings. His work has been exhibited at the Secession Exhibition in Vienna in 1900.

Although quite unpopular in his native Scotland, Mackintosh was a relative success outside the UK and most of its most ambitious designs were not carried out, such as the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901 .

He died in London in 1928, ruined.