Victor Horta
Belgian
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| 1861/01/06 | Victor Pierre Horta is born in Ghent. His father, Pierre Horta, was a luxury shoemaker, who, according to Victor, "ran his studio with such an air of superiority that for him it became an art." | Born | |||||
| 1873/00/00 | Horta joins the architecture section of the Ghent Academy of Fine Arts. | Education | |||||
| 1874/00/00 | Horta frequents the Royal Athenaeum of Ghent from 1874 to 1877. | Life | |||||
| 1878/00/00 | In Paris, Horta enters the studio of architect and decorator, Jules Debuysson. | Education | |||||
| 1880/06/13 | After the death of his father, Victor Horta returns to Belgium. | Life | |||||
| 1881/00/00 | Horta enters an internship with Alphonse Balat, the favorite architect of Leopold II who designed the Museum of Ancient Art, rue de la Regence in Brussels. | Work | |||||
| 1881/00/00 | Horta marries Pauline Heyse, they move to Brussels. Pauline was born on 7 October 1856, in 's Gravenhage, Nederland. The union will produce two daughters, including Simone Horta. | Groom | |||||
| 1881/00/00 | Horta joins the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. | Life | |||||
| 1884/00/00 | Horta wins the first Godecharle Award for Architecture with a Parliament project. | Life | |||||
| 1885/00/00 | Horta begins construction on three adjoining houses on Twaalfkameren Street (Street of the Twelve Chambers, Rue des Douze Chambres) in Ghent, Belgium. | Architect | Horta Ghent Residences | Ghent | |||
| 1887/00/00 | Horta wins the triennial competition organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels for its former students, with a project of Natural History Museum. | Life | |||||
| 1889/00/00 | On the recommendation of Alphonse Balat, Victor Horta is commissioned for 100000 francs to design a pavilion to house Jef Lambeaux's sculpture "The Human Passions" at the Brussels International Exposition. | Architect | Temple of Human Passions, Cinquantenaire | Parc du Cinquantenaire | Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles (1897) | ||
| 1889/07/00 | Horta tours the Eiffel Tower and Gallery of Machines at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. | Visitor | Eiffel Tower | Paris | 1889 Exposition Universelle | ||
| 1890/00/00 | Simone Horta is born. Maison Matyn, 50 Rue de Bordeaux in Saint-Gilles (Brussels). | Father | |||||
| 1892/00/00 | Horat becomes a professor at the Polytechnic Faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. | Work | |||||
| 1893/00/00 | Maison Autrique is built at 266 Chaussee de Haecht in Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, for Eugene Autrique. | Architect | Maison Autrique | Schaerbeek, BE | |||
| 1894/00/00 | The Hotel Tassel, a town house, is built by Victor Horta for Belgian scientist, Emile Tassel, in 1893-1894. It is generally considered to be the first true Art Nouveau building, due to its innovative layout and use of materials and decoration. | Architect | Hotel Tassel | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1894/00/00 | Horta becomes president of the Central Architecture Society of Belgium. | Work | |||||
| 1894/00/00 | Solvay Hotel is built on Avenue Louise in Brussels. | Architect | Hotel Solvay | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1894/00/00 | Maison Frison is built as an office and residence for Maurice Frison, Lawyer of Court of Leopold II. | Architect | Frison House, Brussels | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1895/00/00 | Construction begins on a mansion at Avenue Palmerston for Georges Deprez, director of the val Saint-Lambert crystals, and his wife, Madame Van de Velde1. | Architect | Hotel Deprez-Van de Velde | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1895/00/00 | Children's Garden, 40 rue Saint-Ghislain in Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1895/00/00 | Van Eetvelde Hotel is built at 4 Avenue Palmerston in Brussels (enlarged in 1898-1901). | Architect | Hotel van Eetvelde | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1897/04/03 | Johannes Brahms dies of liver cancer or cirrhosis of the liver in Vienna, Austria. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, under a monument designed by Victor Horta and the sculptor Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat. | Architect | Central Cemetery, Wien | Vienna, AT | |||
| 1899/00/00 | Aubecq Hotel, 520 avenue Louise in Brussels. Demolished in 1950. | Architect | |||||
| 1899/00/00 | Commissioned by the Belgian Workers' Party in 1895, Maison du Peuple opens at 12 Place E Vandervelde, Brussels. Razed 1966, the railings can be seen in the Brussels' Horta subway station. Structural parts are incorporated in the Horta Grand Cafe, Antwerp. | Architect | |||||
| 1899/00/00 | Carpentier House in Ronse. | Architect | |||||
| 1900/00/00 | The 'A Innovation' store, Rue Neuve in Brussels (destroyed by fire in 1968). | Architect | |||||
| 1900/05/00 | Victor Horta's own residence is completed. | Architect, Home | Horta Museum | Saint-Gilles, BE | |||
| 1901/00/00 | The Dubois house, 80 Brugmann Ave in Forest, Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1901/00/00 | The Roger mansion 459 Louise Avenue in Brussels (completely transformed). | Architect | |||||
| 1901/00/00 | The Braecke house, 31 Rue Abdication in Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1901/03/00 | Victor Horta's studio is finished. | Architect, Work | Horta Museum | Saint-Gilles, BE | |||
| 1902/00/00 | The Max Hallet mansion, 346 Louise Avenue in Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1903/00/00 | The Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai (completed in 1928). | Architect | |||||
| 1903/00/00 | The Grand Bazaar Anspach in Frankfurt-am-Main (razed). | Architect | |||||
| 1903/00/00 | The Anspach store, Rue Gretry in Brussels (razed). | Architect | |||||
| 1906/00/00 | The Brugmann Hospital in Jette (completed in 1923). | Architect | |||||
| 1906/00/00 | Victor Horta and his first wife, Pauline, divorce. | Groom | |||||
| 1906/00/00 | The Waucquez store is built on Rue des Sables in Brussels. | Architect | Belgian Comic Strip Center, Brussels | Brussels, BE | |||
| 1908/00/00 | Julia Maria Carlsson weds Victor Horta. a Physiotherapists, Julia was born in 1876, in Mora, Mora, Dalarna County, Sweden. | Groom | |||||
| 1909/00/00 | The Wolfers store, 11-13 Rue d'Arenberg in Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1910/00/00 | The architect Victor Horta is awarded the design of the Brussels Central Station. | Architect | |||||
| 1911/00/00 | Horat resigns from the Polytechnic Faculty of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. | Work | |||||
| 1912/00/00 | Horta is given the task of reorganizing the courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. | Work | |||||
| 1913/00/00 | Horta is appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels for a period of three years. | Work | |||||
| 1916/00/00 | Horta attends the 'Reconstruction of Belgium' congress in London. The German authorities learned about his journey. Unable to return home, Horta goes to America. | Work | |||||
| 1919/00/00 | Victor Horta's sells sells his house and studio and moves to Avenue Louise. | Home | Horta Museum | Saint-Gilles, BE | |||
| 1919/00/00 | Horta is appointed professor at the Hoger Institute for Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. | Work | |||||
| 1919/00/00 | Horta draws the first plans for the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (inaugurated in 1928). | Architect | |||||
| 1919/01/00 | Victor Horta returns from America. | Life | |||||
| 1925/00/00 | Belgium's 'Pavilion of Honor' at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. | Architect | |||||
| 1925/00/00 | Horta is appointed director of the Fine Arts section of the Royal Academy of Belgium. | Work | |||||
| 1928/00/00 | Musee des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, Belgium opens. | Architect | |||||
| 1929/00/00 | Champieoned by Henry Le Boeuf, the Centre for Fine Arts opens in Brussels, Belgium. | Architect | |||||
| 1932/00/00 | For his services to the field of architecture, Victor Horta is made a baron by King Albert I of Belgium. | Life | |||||
| 1937/00/00 | Horta finalizes plans for the Central Station in Brussels. | Architect | |||||
| 1939/00/00 | Horta begins writing his Memoirs. | Author | |||||
| 1945/00/00 | Embittered, Victor Horta destroys nearly all his personal archives and drawings. | Life | |||||
| 1947/09/08 | Victor Pierre Horta dies in Brussels, Belgium. | Died |
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