Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard was a French architect, who is now the bestknown representative of the Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Guimard was born in Lyon. Like many other French nineteenthcentury architects, he attended the cole nationale suprieure des arts dcoratifs in Paris from 1882 to 1885, where he became acquainted with the theories of Eugne Emmanuel ViolletleDuc. These rationalist ideas provided the basis for his idiosyncratic form of Art Nouveau. In 1884 he was awarded three bronze and two silver medals at the school for his work. In 1885 he received awards in all of the competitions at cole nationale suprieure des arts dcoratifs including four bronze medallions, five silver, and the schools Grande Prix dArchitecture.

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