Rennie mackintosh biography

Charles Rennie Mackintosh lived from 7 June 1868 to 10 December 1928. He was an architect, designer, and watercolourist who was strongly associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, and who became the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.

Never as successful or as recognised in his day as he should have been, he has since gone on to become an hugely influential icon, a superstar of the design world: a man now widely, if belatedly, celebrated in Glasgow, the city which he left in despair in 1914.

Rennie mackintosh biography

The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

Mackintosh was born in in the Townhead area of Glasgow in 1868, close to Glasgow Cathedral. He was the second of eleven children of a Police Superintendent.

At school, Mackintosh had great difficulty reading and writing. He would probably be recognised today as dyslexic: in the 1870s he was simply regarded a