Who was Charles Rennie Mackintosh?
Architect, Artist and Designer.
Date and Place of Birth:
7th June 1868, Glasgow, Scotland.
Family background:
The son of a Police Superintendent.
Education:
Allen Glen's School. Apprenticed to an Architect,
John Hutchinson. Attended evening classes at the Glasgow School
of Art where he met Margaret MacDonald.
Chronology/Biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh:
1884: Apprenticed
to the firm of John Hutchinson.
1889: Joined the
firm of Honeyman and Keppie as an architectural assistant.
1890: Won a traveling
Scholarship and toured extensively in Italy, Belgium and France.
1891: Worked with
Margaret MacDonald and her sister Frances and her husband Herbert
McNair and the group became known as "The Four" and the
"Glasgow Style" was born. They exhibited both in London
and abroad in Vienna and Turin.
1893: Designed his
first major commission the Glasgow Herald Newspaper building. Known
as the Lighthouse.
1897: Designed the
Glasgow School of Art and Queen's Cross Church.
1899: Designed Windyhill,
Kilmalcolm.
1900: Exhibited
at the Vienna Sezession.
1901: Now married
Mackintosh and Margaret continued to work together and entered many
international competitions They designed the Warndorfer Music Salon
in Vienna. and the Exhibition Room in Moscow.
1901-03: Designs
were produced for the "House for an Art Lover" (Recently
opened in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow), the Hill House in Helensburgh
for the publisher Walter Blackie, Scotland Street School and the
Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street for Miss Kate Cranston.
1902: Organised
the Scottish section of the Turin Exhibition.
1904: Became a partner
in Honeyman and Keppie.
1906: Became a Member
of the Royal Institution of British Architects.
1914: Moved to Walberswick
in Suffolk.
1915: Moved to Chelsea
in London where he began working on designs for fabrics, furniture
and book covers.
1916: Designed the
interior of 78 Derngate, Northampton for the industrial designer
W. J. Basset-Lowke.
1923: Moved to Port
Vendres in the South of France where he mainly worked on landscape
painting.
1927: Returned to
London to receive treatment for cancer.
(1933) Death of
Margaret.
Marriage:
1900 to Margaret MacDonald, a fellow student
at Glasgow.
Places of Interest:
GLASGOW:
The Lighthouse Museum, Mitchell Street.
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, Queens Cross Church, 870
Garscube Road.
Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street.
The Willow Tea Rooms, 217 Sauchiehall Street.
House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park.
The Hunterian Gallery, 82 Hill Head Street (Holds reconstructed
Interior)
Scotland Street School, Museum of Education, 225 Scotland street.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE:
78 Derngate, Northampton.
STRATHCLYDE:
The Hill House, Kennedy Drive, Helensburgh.
Date and Place of Death:
10th December 1928, London, England of cancer.
Age at Death:
60.
Site of Grave:
Cremated at Golder's Green Crematorium, London.
