Wilhelm Cornelis Bauer
Dutch architect of fantastic style
Wilhelm Cornelis Bauer was a Dutch architect with a flair for the fantastic. He was born into an aesthetically minded environment in the Hague, where his father ran an interior decoration firm; his brother, the painter and engraver Marius Bauer, is better known. W.C. Bauer (sometimes known as Willem) studied at the Craft School before heading to the Royal Academy of Visual Arts and became involved in the circle of Dutch architects that included Berlage, Walenkamp, Kromhout and others. Suffering from paralysis and syphilitic depression, Wilhelm Cornelis Bauer killed himself in 1904.
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Siblings
- Marius Bauer Younger
Artworks by this artist (5 total)
- Drie schetsen van sculpturen in het Musée des Arts-Decoratifs te Parijs 1872 - 1904
- Binnenplaats van de Ecole des Beaux-Arts te Parijs 1872 - 1904
- Uurwerk in het Musée des Arts-Decoratifs 1887
- Plafondschildering met figuren gezeten op wolken 1872 - 1904
- Interieur van de Notre-Dame te Parijs 1872 - 1904