Glasgow School: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAD43E274ACE5A01 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow, 7 June 1868 -- London, 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist. Whilst apprenticed to the architect John Hutchinson, he began attending evening classes in architecture at Glasgow School of Art, where he won many prizes and a travelling scholarship to Italy, France and Belgium. On his return to Glasgow, he met the two sisters Frances and Margaret MacDonald, and together with Herbert MacNair, they formed the Glasgow Four group. The group created a specifically Scottish variant of European Art Nouveau. He was, quite literally, a comet streaking across the Glasgow horizon for ten years. By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century the fire had burned out and Mackintosh was well on his way to becoming an embittered man. In 1914 his association with Honeyman and Keppie was dissolved and soon thereafter he and Margaret left Glasgow and moved to England where they lived for the next eight years and where little work came his way. In 1923 the Mackintoshes took a long holiday in southern France and made the decision to stay. For the next five years Mackintosh painted masterful watercolors of the French countryside. Little is known of Margaret's activities during this period. On December 10, 1928 soon after being diagnosed with throat cancer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh passed away. Margaret wandered Europe and in 1932 she returned to Chelsea, England where she died on January 7, 1933. Part I: Glasgow School Of Art-1897-1907 The Willow Tea Rooms 1897-1903 120 Mains Street, Glasgow, 1900 6 Florentine Terrace later renamed: 78 South Park Avenue, Glasgow-1906-1914 Ed Alleyne-Johnson: "Without You" and "Thank You" ::::: 23 May 2014: Terrible day - Glasgow School of Art fire. The world famous Glasgow School of Art has suffered devasting damage after a fire ripped through the listed Charles Rennie Mackintosh building. Firefighters are still struggling to control the blaze, which appeared to have started in the basement of the building shortly after midday. Eye witnesses feared that the whole west wing of the old building has been lost, including the irreplaceable Mackintosh library and the Hen Run, a famous corridor running along the roof which linked the west and east wing. The school was completed in 1909 and is considered by many to be Mackintosh's masterwork.
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