Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh

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Margaret MacDonald, about 1895

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (* 5. November 1864 in Tipton at Wolverhampton ; † 10. January 1933 in London ), and Margaret MacDonald and Margaret Mackintosh, was a Scottish painter, designer and craftswoman of Art Nouveau .

Life

Margaret MacDonald was born to a mining engineer near Wolverhampton. In 1890 the family settled in Glasgow , where Margaret and her sister Frances studied at the Glasgow School of Art . In 1900 she married the architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh , with whom she had moved to Liverpool in 1899 .

With him, her sister Frances MacDonald McNair and James Herbert McNair she formed the artist group The Four , which shaped the Scottish Art Nouveau school. The two women and other artists formed the group called the Glasgow Girls . In 1900 Margaret Macintosh and her husband exhibited at the Vienna Secession , thereby influencing the work of Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann . In 1915 she settled in London with her husband and they became part of the Chelsea art scene, living on Margaret's inheritance and the sale of watercolors and textile designs. Due to their poor health, they quit their artistic activity in 1921. In 1923 she traveled with her husband to the south of France for reasons of the lower cost of living and the healthy climate and spent the following years at the “Hotel du Commerce” in Port-Vendres . In 1927 she returned to London with her husband and, after his death, lived secluded in Chelsea until 1933.

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So-called. Wärndorfer frieze from the music salon in Fritz Waerndorfer's villa in Vienna, 1906. Place of issue: MAK Vienna
The White Rose And The Red Rose, 1902

Mackintosh worked primarily as a craftsperson and designer . She tried a wide variety of techniques and materials, such as metalwork, embroidery, textile designs and was particularly important as a designer of interiors. She mainly made designs for tea rooms and private apartments. After initially working mostly with her sister, her collaboration later shifted to her husband. In the case of Willow Tearooms , she was involved in redesigning the facade.

She was the leading female artist of Art Nouveau and, with her decorative handicrafts, is one of the most influential designers of Modern Style , as Art Nouveau is known in English. She also worked as a painter and graphic artist.

In 1901, the couple designed a house with interior fittings for the competition Haus einer Kunstfreund of the German magazine Interior Decoration , a plan that was not implemented until the 1990s in Glasgow in a park with the House for an Art Lover .

Her gesso panels The Heart Of The Rose and The White Rose And The Red Rose , which the artist made in 1901 and 1902, fetched record sums of £ 490,900 and £ 1,700,000 respectively at auction in 2008 by Christie's auction house . Another gesso panel is the so-called Wärndorfer frieze , which the artist designed in 1902 for the music salon of the Vienna Villa Fritz Wärndorfers , co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte .

literature

  • Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh , in: Sheila Rowbotham : A Century of Women. The History of Women in Britain and the United States . London: Viking, 1997 ISBN 0-670-87420-5 , p. 616

Web links

Commons : Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See publication: A modern afternoon… Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and the Salon Waerndorfer in Vienna . (de + en) Ed. by Peter Noever / MAK Vienna, 2000 Böhlau Verlag Vienna.
personal data
SURNAME MacDonald Mackintosh, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Tipton at Wolverhampton
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1933
Place of death London