Victor horta furniture

Victor Horta

1861

6 January: Victor Horta born in Ghent, the son of a shoemaker.

1873

Enrolled in the school of architecture at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Ghent.

Continued to attend the Athénée Royal in the same city from 1874 to 1877.

1878

Left for Paris, where he entered the studio of the interior designer Jules Debuysson. "My stay in Paris, walking the city streets, visiting the monuments and museums threw wide open the windows of my artistic soul.

Victor horta design philosophy

No school could have done more to tire me with an enthusiasm for architecture than viewing and deciphering those monuments - an enthusiasm that has never left me." (Mémoires, p.8)

1880

13 June: death of Horta's father.

The young Horta returns to Belgium.

1881

His first marriage and the move to Brussels, where he enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Began training under Balat (Leopold II 's favourite architect, the designer of, among other things, the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in the Ru