Margaret MacDonald (artist)

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

Life

Margaret MacDonald was born as the daughter of a mining engineer near Wolverhampton. 1890 let the family down in Glasgow, where Margaret and her sister Frances at the Glasgow School of Art studying. She married in 1900 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, they formed the group The Four artists that shaped the Scottish School of the Art Nouveau style. 1900 featured Margaret and her husband from the Vienna Secession, which they exercised influence on the works of Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Due to her poor health Margaret had to end their artistic activities from 1921.

Work

Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh worked largely as a craftswoman and Entwerferin. She tried using different techniques and materials, such as metal work, embroidery and textile designs and was especially significant as a designer of interiors. She made especially designs for tea rooms and private apartments. After it was initially mostly worked together with her sister, her co- shifted later to her husband.

Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh was the leading female artist of the Art Nouveau and, with their decorative arts and crafts work on one of the most influential designers of modern style, like the English name of Jugendstil is. In addition, she also worked as a painter and graphic artist.

Your gesso panel The Heart Of The Rose and The White Rose And The Red Rose, which the artist had made in 1901 and 1902, achieved in 2008 at an auction the auction house Christie's, the record sums of £ 490,900 or £ 1,700 000 another gesso panel is the so-called Wärndorfer frieze by the artist in 1902 for the music room of the Vienna Villa Fritz Waerndorfer, co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte, designed.