Octave van Rysselberghe (22 July 1855, Minderhout – 30 March 1929, Nice)[1] was a Belgian architect of the Art Nouveau period.

He is one of the representatives of the architectural renewal that characterized the end of the 19th century, with Victor Horta, Paul Hankar and Henry Van de Velde.

[3] He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent[4] and was trained by Adolphe Pauli in the neoclassical tradition, inspired by the Italian Renaissance.

[10] Octave van Rysselberghe was soon regarded as one of the most important representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium.

[1] From 1895 to 1905, he built tourist establishments for the Compagnie des Grands Hôtels Européens in Ostend, Cherbourg, Monte Carlo, Saint Petersburg and Tunis.