Henry van de Velde Book Cover for Nietzsche

Cover design by Henry van de Velde for book by Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. Cover of the 1908 Insel edition. Henry van de Velde was a founder of the Art Nouveau movement. He worked as a painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist.  His co-founding of the German Werkbund in 1907 aimed at heightening the relationship between German designers and the field of industrial design.