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Victor Horta

1861 - 1947

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Victor Pierre Horta (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ ɔʁta]; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. He was a fervent admirer of the French architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93), often considered the first Art Nouveau house, is based on the work of Viollet-le-Duc. The curving stylized vegetal forms that Horta used in turn influenced many others, including the French architect Hector Guimard, who used it in the first Art Nouveau apartment building he designed in Paris and in the entrances he designed for the Paris Metro. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Horta has received more than 474,824 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Victor Horta is the 26th most popular architect (down from 25th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 38th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Architect.

Victor horta is most famous for designing the art nouveau style villa called the josephine baker house.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Victor Horta ranks 26 out of 518. Before him are Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Apollodorus of Damascus, Otto Wagner, Renzo Piano, and Frank Gehry. After him are Santiago Calatrava, Henry van de Velde, André Le Nôtre, Adolf Loos, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Peter Behrens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Victor Horta ranks 9. Before him are Rudolf Steiner, Fridtjof Nansen, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. After him are Erich von Falkenhayn, Georgy Lvov, Alfred North Whitehead, Halford Mackinder, James Naismith, and Robert Bosch. Among people deceased in 1947, Victor Horta ranks 13. Before him are Rudolf Höss, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Aleister Crowley, Kurt Lewin, George II of Greece, and Jozef Tiso. After him are Raoul Wallenberg, Alfred North Whitehead, Ettore Bugatti, Halford Mackinder, Anton Denikin, and Aung San.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Victor Horta ranks 43 out of 1,190. Before him are Guillaume Du Fay (1397), Eleanor of Austria (1498), César Franck (1822), Pepin of Herstal (635), Philippe of Belgium (1960), and Hergé (1907). After him are Henry van de Velde (1863), Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Henri La Fontaine (1854), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Jules Bordet (1870), and Simon Stevin (1548).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Belgium

Among architects born in Belgium, Victor Horta ranks 1. After him are Henry van de Velde (1863), Auguste Perret (1874), Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514), Lambert Lombard (1505), François de Cuvilliés (1695), Joseph Poelaert (1817), and Fernand de Montigny (1885).

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