Charles Robert Ashbee
English architect and designer
1863 CE to 1942 CE
Charles Robert Ashbee (May 17, 1863 – May 23, 1942) is an English architect and designer who is a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement, which takes its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris.
Ashbee is defined by one source as "designer, architect, entrepreneur, and social reformer".
His disciplines include metalwork, textile design, furniture, jewelry and other objects in the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) and Arts and Crafts genres.
He becomes an elected member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1892, and is elected as its Master in 1929.
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The so-called "Glasgow" style is exhibited in Europe and influences the Viennese Art Nouveau movement known as Sezessionstil (in English, the Vienna Secession) around 1900.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh exhibit to great acclaim at the Eighth Secession Exhibition in Vienna, as does Charles Robert Ashbee.
Mackintosh, his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair had met at evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art and become known as a collaborative group, "The Four", or "The Glasgow Four", and are prominent members of the "Glasgow School" movement.
The group exhibits in Glasgow, London and Vienna, and these exhibitions help establish Mackintosh's reputation.
Mackintosh also works in interior design, furniture, textiles and metalwork.
Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complements his more formal, rectilinear work.
Margaret, exhibiting with Mackintosh, is an influence on the Secessionists Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann.
Charles Robert Ashbee, leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, becomes acquainted with Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, where the latter is developing his vision of prairie architecture.