03 — ARTWORK
Hôtel Hankar: façade
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Hankar's first independent work was his own house in the Rue Defacqz, Brussels, a sober structure in brick with bluestone dressings and horizontal bands, decorated with wrought-iron work and a monochromePainted in a single color; a painting executed in a single color. mural by the painter Adolphe Crespin (1859-1944). Unlike the flowing, more flamboyantstyle flamboyant (French), the last major style of French Gothic architecture, so called because of its highly elaborate "flame-like" tracery. It followed the Rayonnant. style of Horta's earliest private residences, Hankar's house is a model of formal restraint, showing a Japanese influence that had been disseminated by his friend the Belgian writer Jules Destrée's Imagerie japonaise (1888).
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@online{wga-rb0959455ca5874,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Hôtel Hankar: façade by HANKAR, Paul},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-12},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hankar-paul-rf29a96d5374edc/htel-hankar-faade-rb0959455ca5874},
urldate = {2026-09-12},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-12. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
