Siegfried Bing
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Samuel Siegfried Bing, who usually gave his name as S. Bing, was a German-French art dealer who lived in Paris as an adult, and who helped introduce Japanese art and artworks to the West and was a fac
Bing, wearing a hanfu, photograph by Hughes Krafft (1889)
Cover of an issue of Le Japon Artistique, which he published from 1888 to 1891
His gallery the Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris
Gallery entrance
Henry van de Velde
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Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Bel
Siegfried Bing
…1895 he opened his famous gallery, the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, which showed works of artists of what would become known as the Art Nouveau style. Henry van de Velde designed the interior of the gallery, while Louis Comfort Tiffany supplied stained glass. Bing's gallery featured entire rooms designed in the Art…
Henry van de Velde; portrait by Nicola Perscheid (1904)
Henry van de Velde by Georg Kolbe, 1913, Albertinum gallery, Dresden
Henry van de Velde by Edvard Munch
Chair designed for "Villa Bloemenwerf", 1895