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Victor, Baron Horta (January 6, 1861 - September 9 , 1947) was a Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and designer. John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich

John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich Royal Victorian Order is an England historian, travel writer and television personality. He is commonly known as John Julius Norwich....
 described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international Art movement and style of art, architecture and applied art?especially the decorative arts?that peaked in popularity at Fin de si?cle of the 20th century ....
 architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel
Hôtel Tassel

The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration....
 in Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
 in 1892-3 means that he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 from the decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s. The French architect Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard was an architect, who is widely considered today to be the most prominent representative of the France Art Nouveau movement of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries....
 was deeply influenced by Horta and further spread the "whiplash" style in France and abroad.

Life and career
Born in Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
, he was first attracted to the architectural profession when he helped his uncle on a building site at the age of twelve.






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Victor, Baron Horta (January 6, 1861 - September 9 , 1947) was a Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 and designer. John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich

John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich Royal Victorian Order is an England historian, travel writer and television personality. He is commonly known as John Julius Norwich....
 described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international Art movement and style of art, architecture and applied art?especially the decorative arts?that peaked in popularity at Fin de si?cle of the 20th century ....
 architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel
Hôtel Tassel

The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration....
 in Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
 in 1892-3 means that he is sometimes credited as the first to introduce the style to architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 from the decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s. The French architect Hector Guimard
Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard was an architect, who is widely considered today to be the most prominent representative of the France Art Nouveau movement of the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries....
 was deeply influenced by Horta and further spread the "whiplash" style in France and abroad.

Life and career


Born in Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
, he was first attracted to the architectural profession when he helped his uncle on a building site at the age of twelve. He studied in Ghent, but left to become an interior designer living in Montmartre
Montmartre

Montmartre is a hill which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18eme arrondissement, Paris, a part of the Rive Droite....
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. There, he was inspired by the emerging impressionist
Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists art exhibition their art publicly in the 1860s....
 and pointillist
Pointillism

Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors....
 artists, and also by the possibilities of working in iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
 and glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
.

When Horta's father died in 1880, he returned to Belgium and moved to Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, to study at the academy of fine arts. He married, and fathered two daughters.

In Brussels, Horta built a friendship with Paul Hankar
Paul Hankar

Paul Hankar was a Belgium architect and designer who, along with Victor Horta and Henry Van de Velde, is considered one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century....
, later also to embrace Art Nouveau. Horta did well in his studies, and was taken on as an assistant by his professor Alphonse Balat
Alphonse Balat

Alphonse Hubert Fran?ois Balat was a Belgian architect.He studied at the Academie of Namur and obtained his degree in architecture from the Academy of Antwerp in 1838....
, architect to Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II was King of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I of Belgium, he succeeded his father to the throne in 1865 and remained king until his death....
. Together, they designed the royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Horta's first work to utilise glass and iron.

By 1885, Horta was working on his own, and designed three house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
s which were built that year. He then decided to avoid residential work for wealthy clients and instead devoted himself to competitions for public work, including statuary and even tomb
Tomb

For the New York prison see The Tombs.A tomb is a repository for the remains of the death. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes....
s. He focused on the curvature
Curvature

In mathematics, curvature refers to any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which a geometric object deviates from being flat, or straight in the case of a line , but this is defined in different ways depending on the context....
 of his designs, believing that the forms he produced were highly practical and not artistic affectations.

After introducing Art Nouveau in an exhibition held in 1892, Horta was inspired. Commissioned to design a home for professor Tassel
Tassel

A tassel is a finishing feature in fabric decoration. The tassel is a universal ornament that is seen in varying versions in many cultures around the globe....
, he transfused the recent influences into Hôtel Tassel
Hôtel Tassel

The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration....
, completed in 1893. Incorporating interior iron structure with curvilinear botanical forms, which was known as “biomorphic whiplash,” and successfully created the first Art Nouveau architecture. Ornate and elaborate designs and natural lighting were concealed behind a stone façade to harmonize the building with the more rigid houses next door.

During this period, Horta socialised widely and joined the freemasons, he was a member of the lodge Les Amis Philanthropes of the Grand Orient of Belgium
Grand Orient of Belgium

The Grand Orient of Belgium...
 in Brussels. This ensured a stream of clients when he returned to designing house
House

A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
s and shops
Retailing

Retailing consists of the sales of goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store or kiosk, or by post, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser....
 from 1893. After receiving great notoriety for his designs, Horta was commissioned to complete many other important buildings throughout Brussels. Enhancing this new architectural style, Horta designed the Hôtel Solvay (1895–1900) and his own residence (1898) employing iron and stone façade with elaborate iron interiors.

After Art Nouveau lost favor, many of Horta's buildings were destroyed, most notably the Maison du Peuple (1895-1899) built for the progressive political party, the Belgian Labour Party
Belgian Labour Party

The Belgian Labour Party, called Belgische Werkliedenpartij in Dutch language and Parti Ouvrier Belge in French language, was the first socialist party in Belgium, founded in 1885....
 and demolished in 1965. However, several of Horta’s buildings are still standing in Brussels to today and available to tour. Most notably are the Magasins Waucquez, formerly a department store, now the Brussels Comic Book Museum and four of his private houses (hôtels), which were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
:
  • Hôtel Tassel
    Hôtel Tassel

    The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration....
    , designed and built for Prof. Émile Tassel in 1892 - 1893.
  • Hôtel Solvay
    Hôtel Solvay

    The H?tel Solvay is a large Art Nouveau town house designed by Victor Horta on the Avenue Louise in Brussels. The house was commissioned by Armand Solvay, the son of the wealthy Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay....
    , designed and built 1895 - 1900.
  • Hôtel van Eetvelde
    Hôtel van Eetvelde

    The H?tel van Eetvelde is a town house designed in 1895 by Victor Horta for Edmond van Eetvelde, administrator of Congo Free State. Together with the H?tel Tassel, the H?tel Solvay and his own Horta Museum it belongs to the core of epoch-making urban residences Victor Horta designed before 1900....
    , designed and built 1895 - 1898.
  • Maison and Atelier Horta
    Horta Museum

    The Horta Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, Belgium....
    , designed in 1898, now the Horta Museum
    Horta Museum

    The Horta Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, Belgium....
    , dedicated to his work.


List of Works


  • 1889 : Temple of Human Passions
    Temple of Human Passions

    The Temple of Human Passions , also known as Pavillon Horta-Lambeaux, is a Neoclassical architecture pavilion in the form of a Greek temple that was built by Victor Horta in 1896 in the Cinquantenaire of Brussels....
    , Cinquantenaire Park
    Cinquantenaire

    Jubelpark or Parc du Cinquantenaire is a large public, urban park in the easternmost part of the Brussels and the European Union in Brussels, Belgium....
     in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (protected monument since 1976)
  • 1890 : Maison Matyn, rue Bordeauxstraat 50, 1060 Saint-Gilles
    Saint-Gilles, Belgium

    Sint-Gillis or Saint-Gilles is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population....
  • 1890 : Renovations and interior decoration to the Brussels residence of Henri van Cutsem, Kunstlaan / Avenue des Arts 16, Sint-Joost-ten-Node (Today Charlier museum).
  • 1892-1893 : Hôtel Tassel
    Hôtel Tassel

    The Hotel Tassel is a town house built by Victor Horta in Brussels for the Belgian scientist and professor Emile Tassel in 1893-1894. It is generally considered as the first true Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and its ground breaking use of materials and decoration....
    , rue Paul-Emile Jansonstraat 6 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1893 : Maison Autrique
    Maison Autrique

    The Autrique House was the first town house built by Victor Horta in the Art Nouveau style. This house built in 1893 represents an essential step in the evolution of the greatest Belgian architect....
    , Haachtsesteenweg/Chaussée de Haecht 266 in Schaarbeek
    Schaarbeek

    Schaarbeek or Schaerbeek is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. Schaerbeek is an old Dutch spelling for Schaarbeek, which probably derived from "schorrenbeek", meaning a "brook with schorres", i.e....
  • 1894 : Hôtel Winssinger, Munthofstraat / rue de l'hotel du Monnaie 66 in Saint-Gilles
    Saint-Gilles, Belgium

    Sint-Gillis or Saint-Gilles is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population....
  • 1894 : Hôtel Frison, rue Lebeaustraat 37 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1894 : Atelier for Godefroid Devreese, Vleugelstraat / rue de l'aile 71 in Schaerbeek (modified)
  • 1894 : Hôtel Solvay
    Hôtel Solvay

    The H?tel Solvay is a large Art Nouveau town house designed by Victor Horta on the Avenue Louise in Brussels. The house was commissioned by Armand Solvay, the son of the wealthy Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay....
    , Avenue Louise
    Avenue Louise

    Louizalaan or Avenue Louise is one of the most important thoroughfares of Brussels. It runs southeast from Louise Square to the Bois de la Cambre or Ter Kamerenbos, covering a distance of 2.7 kilometers ....
     / Louizalaan 224 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
    .
  • 1895 : Interior decoration of the house of Anna Boch
    Anna Boch

    Anna Rosalie Boch was a Belgium Painting, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut . Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium....
    , Boulevard du Toison d'Or / Guldenvlieslaan 78 in Saint-Gilles
    Saint-Gilles, Belgium

    Sint-Gillis or Saint-Gilles is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population....
     (demolished)
  • 1895-1898 : Hôtel van Eetvelde
    Hôtel van Eetvelde

    The H?tel van Eetvelde is a town house designed in 1895 by Victor Horta for Edmond van Eetvelde, administrator of Congo Free State. Together with the H?tel Tassel, the H?tel Solvay and his own Horta Museum it belongs to the core of epoch-making urban residences Victor Horta designed before 1900....
    , Avenue Palmerstonlaan 2/6 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1896-1898 : Maison du Peuple / Volkshuis, place Vanderveldeplein in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (demolished in 1965)
  • 1897-1899 : Kindergarten, rue Sainte-Ghislaine / Sint-Gisleinstraat 40 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1898-1900 : House and Studio of Victor Horta
    Horta Museum

    The Horta Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, Belgium....
    , rue américaine / Amerikaansestraat 23-25 in Saint-Gilles
    Saint-Gilles, Belgium

    Sint-Gillis or Saint-Gilles is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population....
     (today the Horta Museum
    Horta Museum

    The Horta Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta and his time. The museum is housed in Horta's former house and atelier in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Gilles, Belgium....
     ).
  • 1899 : Maison Frison "Les Épinglettes", Ringlaan 70 in Uccle
    Uccle

    Ukkel or Uccle is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Uccle is known for its well-to-do areas, its green spots and its high rental rates....
  • 1899 : Hôtel Aubecq, Avenue Louise
    Avenue Louise

    Louizalaan or Avenue Louise is one of the most important thoroughfares of Brussels. It runs southeast from Louise Square to the Bois de la Cambre or Ter Kamerenbos, covering a distance of 2.7 kilometers ....
     / Louizalaan 520 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (demolished in 1950)
  • 1899-1903: Villa Carpentier (Les Platanes), Doorniksesteenweg 9-11 in Ronse
    Ronse

    Ronse is a Belgium city and a Municipalities in Belgium in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of East Flanders. The municipality only comprises the city of Ronse proper....
  • 1900 : Extension of the Maison Furnémont, rue Gatti de Gamondstraat 149 in Uccle
    Uccle

    Ukkel or Uccle is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.Uccle is known for its well-to-do areas, its green spots and its high rental rates....
  • 1900 : Department store: A l'Innovation
    Innovation

    The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations....
    , rue Neuve / Nieuwstraat 111 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (destroyed by fire in 1967)
  • 1901 : House and Studio for the sculptor Fernant Dubois, Avenue Brugmannlaan 80 in Vorst
  • 1901 : House and Studio for the sculptor Pieter-Jan Braecke, rue de l'Abdication / Troonafstandstraat 51 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1902 : Hôtel Max Hallet, Avenue Louise
    Avenue Louise

    Louizalaan or Avenue Louise is one of the most important thoroughfares of Brussels. It runs southeast from Louise Square to the Bois de la Cambre or Ter Kamerenbos, covering a distance of 2.7 kilometers ....
     / Louizalaan 346 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
    .
  • 1903 : Funeral monument for the composer Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
     on the "Zentralfriedhof" in Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
     (in collaboration with the sculptor Ilse Conrat)
Zentralfriedhof Vienna Brahms
*1903 : Magasins Waucquez, rue du Sable / Zandstraat 20 in Brussels (since 1989 Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art
Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art

The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art chronicles the history of Belgium comics. Housed in a former department store in Brussels' business district, it exhibits examples of comic strips in French language, Dutch language and English language....
.
  • 1903 : House for the art critic Sander Pierron, rue de l'Acqueduc / Waterleidingsstraat 157 in Elsene
  • 1903 : Grand Bazar Anspach, Bisschopsstraat / rue de l'Evêque 66 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (demolished)
  • 1903 : Maison Emile Vinck, rue de Washingtonstraat 85, Elsene (converted in 1927 by architect A.Blomme).
  • 1903 : Department store: A l'Innovation, Elsenesteenweg 63-65 in Elsene (converted)
  • 1904 : Gym for the boarding school "Les Peupliers" in Vilvoorde
    Vilvoorde

    Vilvoorde is a Belgium Municipalities in Belgium in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the city of Vilvoorde proper with its two outlying quarters of Konigslo and Houtem and the small town of Peutie....
    .
  • 1905 : Villa Fernand Dubois, rue Maredretstraat, Sosoye.
  • 1906 : Bruggemann Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtplein in Jette
    Jette

    Jette is one of the nineteen municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Dutch-speaking university of Brussels has built its hospital and medical campus in Jette, while its other buildings are in the so-called Etterbeek campus actually located in Ixelles or Elsene....
    ; (First design; opened in 1923)
  • 1907 : Magasins Hicklet, Nieuwstraat / rue Neuve 20 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (converted)
  • 1909 : Wolfers Jewellers Shop, rue d'Arenberg / Arenbergstraat 11-13 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
    .
  • 1910 : House for dr. Terwagne, Van Rijkswijcklaan 62, Antwerp
    Antwerp

    ||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
    .
  • 1911 : Magasins Absalon, rue Saint-Christophe / Sint-Kristoffelstraat 41 in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
  • 1911 : Maison Wiener, Sterrekundelaan / avenue de l'Astronomie in Sint-Joost-ten-Node (demolished)
  • 1912 : Brussels-Central railway station (first designs; completed by Maxime Brunfaut and inaugurated in 1952).
  • 1920 : Centre for Fine Arts, rue Ravensteinstraat in Brussels
    Brussels

    Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
     (first deign; opened in 1928).
  • 1925 : Belgian pavilion at the Exposition des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
     in 1925.
  • 1928 : Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai
    Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai

    The Mus?e des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium, is an art museum.This museum was created at the beginning of the 20th century after Henri Van Cutsem, a Belgian art collector, offered his collection to the city of Tournai in 1905....
     in Tournai
    Tournai

    Tournai is a Walloon Region city and Municipalities in Belgium of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut ....
    .


Victor Horta was interred in the Ixelles Cemetery
Ixelles Cemetery

The Ixelles Cemetery , located in Ixelles/Elsene in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemetery in Belgium.The Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bar and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery....
 in Brussels.

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