画家，设计师和建筑师亨利•范•德•维尔德（Henry van de Velde，1863-1957年）在将现代主义美学扩展到巴黎和绘画之外方面发挥了关键作用。因反对在1900年左右发展起来的民族主义，他试图通过在比利时，法国，德国和荷兰的作品，使绘画成为超越艺术之间和国家之间界限的美学基础。范•德•维尔德的住宅，博物馆和剧院设计获得了国际认可。这位经常与新艺术运动和青年艺术派联系在一起的艺术家发展出一种抽象风格，他在魏玛的应用艺术学院（包豪斯的直接前身和模型）教授这种风格。作为德国制造联盟的主要成员，他帮助塑造了现代建筑和设计领域。这本被期待已久的书（关于范德•维尔德的**本重要英语著作）坚定地将他定位为20世纪最有影响力的艺术家之一，并且是现代运动中不可或缺的声音。

The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthetic that transcended boundaries between the arts and between nations through his work in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Van de Velde’s designs for homes, museums, and theaters received international recognition. The artist, often associated with the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, developed a style of abstraction that he taught in his School of Applied Arts in Weimar, the immediate precursor of and model for the Bauhaus. As a leading member of the German Werkbund, he helped shaped the fields of modern architecture and design. This long-awaited book, the first major work on van de Velde in English, firmly positions him as one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists and an essential voice within the modern movement.