Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 - December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer and watercolorist, who had a fundamental importance in the Arts and Crafts movement and who was also the greatest exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland. He was the father of Elizabeth Nicol Rennie who also followed in his footsteps.

Protomodernista (antecedent of modernism). He tries to reform by breaking with the above. He rose to fame after exhibiting his furniture in the Vienna Secession in 1900 and was part of the group The Four (The Four) of the Glasgow School, created in 1897, being his main figure with his wife Margaret Macdonald, sister of the latter, Frances Macdonald and the latter's husband, Herbert MacNair.

He took elements from the Arts and Crafts, and was very well accepted by the opposition to Belgian Art Nouveau (he was a hero for the Secession).

He was one of the most prominent architects of the characters linked to Art Nouveau (including Victor Horta), but after 1913 he did not receive any more commissions and died in misery in 1928 (misery that is also related to his fondness for drinking) .