“Art: A Way of Communication”
An eTwinning Project
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
BY THE PRIMARY 7 PUPILS OF
SHAWLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Why is he
famous?
Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famous for his successful building
designs, paintings, stained glass windows, textiles, furniture,
wallpaper and even cutlery! Charles died in 1928 aged 60. His
work has become much more popular since his death.
Stained glass
Window
Scotland St
school
Argyle Chair
The white
rose and
the red rose
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EDUCATION
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Charles
Rennie Mackintosh attended Reid‘s Public
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School. He then attended Allen Glens Institution, a
private school, from the age of nine. He attended
evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art
where he met Margaret McDonald. She became
his wife. In 1889 he became an architectural
assistant with a company called Honeyman and
Keppie.
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Char l es Rennie Mackint osh Tim
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1865
Birth of
Margaret
1868
1884
Birth of
1888
Trained with John
CRM
First
Hutchison architect
1889
3
1890
joins group
competition honeyman
he wins
competition
keppie
1891
1893
1895
Meets Margret
Designs the
MacDonald
Glasgow Herald
1897
1900
1903
Designs a Martyrs he did a profile CRM marries
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public school
on a magazine Margret
building
1906
1920
deigned
decorations
for furniture
1923
1927
1928
1933
Scotland
prepares decor
Moves to
Gets cancer
CRM
Margret
street
for studios
France
moves to London
dies
dies
school built
1963
Biography
Of CRM
1973
Home
Demolished
1977
Reproduce
CRM
1978
Queens Cross
church of CRM
1992
CRM design
expires
CRM
cottage built
Awards
and
Prizes
Awards and Prizes
In his fifth year at the old Glasgow School of Art
Charles Rennie Mackintosh passed building
construction and won one of five bronze medals, he
later won a gold and a silver medal for his Italian
and French renaissance designs. He was awarded 1st
prize for his drawing skills and one of the national
queens prizes for his design of a church and the
national silver medal in 1890 for a science and art
museum.
In 1890 Charles ` Mackintosh won the Alexander
Thompson travelling studentship for public design,
and with the prize ` of £60 he decided to travel
Europe. In 1896 he won a compotation to design the
new Glasgow school of art. In 1901 he entered a
competition to design a House for an Art Lover’. He
didn’t win because his entry was submitted too late
but he did get a special award for his designs
unique personal quality.
Furniture
He designed furniture for exhibition. Also, for every house he
designed, he created everything to go inside it.
He designed this chair for Catherine Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms around 1898189. It was given the appropriate name “The Argyle Chair”.
He designed this piece of furniture, later named “Washstand”, with oak, ceramic tiling, coloured
and mirrored glass and lead.
He designed this “Cheval Mirror” in 1900 made in oak (painted white), with glass inlays
and silver brass handles.
Textiles
Charles Rennie Mackintosh created many textile designs including
rose and teardrop, odalisque and tulip and lattice.
His designs usually combined plants and geometric shapes.
It is not known how many of his textiles designs were made into
fabrics.
Rose and
teardrop
Charles
rennie mackintosh
CRM
decorative
pannels
decorative panels
The house for an Art Lover
CRM's sculptural stonework
was never simply graphic but
told a story.
WINDYHILL DOOR PANEL
He influenced his wife with his
panels and art. It was
influenced by the Japanese.
The Hill House, library
panel
The library, in dark purple
glass, is the main domain.
Watercolours
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Orivanto Cathedral1891
The study of the orivanto cathedral has a rather dutiful air but it is significant that
mackintosh has chosen a close-up view that emphasizes the banded masonry
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The harvest moon 1892
The harvest moon is Mackintosh’s earliest surviving art painting as opposed to artistic
record-sketches such as Orivanto Cathedral
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Collioure bay 1923
This painting of the Boramar Beach and Fort behind the old village of Collioure has been
done from the main coast road at the southern, Port Vendres end, of Collioure
Paintings & Sketches
Charles Rennie Mackintosh has created many well known paintings and sketches such as The Fort,
Liverpool Cathedral and the Glasgow Institute poster. Some of them are now stored in The Huntarian
Museum (Glasgow). Design of Blue and Pink Tobacco Flowers is a lovely painting of his, it was made
between 1916 to 1923.
The Fort
Glasgow Institute Poster
Liverpool Cathedral
Writing Font
This is the Charles Rennie Mackintosh font. It is based on the style mackintosh used in all his work. The
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Font was the brainchild of designer George R. Grant, mainly because his
accountant needed the typeface for his wedding invitations!
SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL
• The Scotland Street school was designed by Charles
Rennie Mackintosh. There are two great towers on the front of
the building. The building was made of red sandstone and it
has a slate roof.
• The school closed in 1979. Now Scotland Street is a
museum of school as it was a long time ago in Glasgow.
• Scotland Street school was built by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh between 1903-1906. It is located next to the
Shields Road Subway Station.
• The total cost of the building was £34,291 and was over
budget and the board wanted a less expensive design.
• The design of the school was based on Rowallan castle in
Ayrshire and Falkland Palace.
HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER
The House for an Art
Lover design was
entered into a
competition set by a
German magazine in
1901.
Whilst Mackintosh's
entry was disqualified
from the competition for
late submission, the
designs were awarded a
special prize for “their
pronounced personal
quality.”
Macintosh’s entry design
Macintosh worked
very hard to make it
in as modern a style
as possible. The
result is a great
design which is
admired around the
world.
The construction of House
for an Art Lover didn’t start
until 1989 and was finished
in 1996. It is in
Bellahouston Park.
The dining room
The House for an Art Lover is a museum in Glasgow and can be used for
functions such as weddings and important meetings.
Piano designed by Macintosh
The Glasgow School of Art
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In January 1897 Charles Rennie Mackintosh was 27
when he won a competition to design a new Glasgow
School of Art.
The governors only had enough money to build half
the building. It was almost a decade after the first
half of the building was built that the second half of
the Glasgow School of Art got built.
The first half of the Glasgow School of Art opened in
1899.
The library is one of his masterpieces.
He had to design a fireproof staircase but it did not
work when there was a fire!
It is now used as an art school.
Art Activities
Using thick black paper and coloured tissue
paper create a ‘stained glass window’ in the
Mackintosh style
Create a charcoal or pencil sketch of
one of your favourite buildings.
Make yourself a name plaque
using the Glasgow Font.
Use either paint, crayon or coloured
pencils to copy/design a repeating
Mackintosh pattern.