Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 30 August 1883, in Utrecht, to a German father; died 7 March 1931, in Davos, Switzerland.
Painter, architect.
Neo-Plasticism.
Groups: Sphinx, De Stijl, Dada, Art Concret.
Theo van Doesburg was destined first of all for a theatrical career, writing poetry, stories and plays, and then beginning as an essayist and getting articles published. He probably began painting about ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA.
Born 1901, in Wuppertal (Ruhr); died 1964 or 1978, in Blacksburg, USA.
Painter, photographer, designer.
Neo-Plasticism.
De Stijl, Novembergruppe, New Vision Photography..
Photobooks.
Werner Gräff was a student of Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar between ...
Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Active in the Netherlands from 1905.
Born 1884, in Budapest; died 1960, in Hierden.
Painter. Figures, landscapes, still-lifes.
Neo-Plasticism.
De Stijl.
Vilmos Huszar studied at the school of applied art in Budapest and at the Hollósy studio in Munich. Shortly after his arrival in the Netherlands in ...
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 26 November 1876, in Utrecht; died 1958, in Blaricum-Amsterdam.
Painter, potter, lithographer. Murals, designs for stained glass.
Groups: De Stijl, Abstraction-Création.
Bart van der Leck started out working for various glassmakers in his native Utrecht before going on to attend the college of industrial arts (where he studied under A.J. van der Kinderen) and then the royal academy of fine arts in Amsterdam. He lived in Amersfoort ...
real name: Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 7 March 1872, in Amersfoort (Utrecht), The Netherlands; died 1 February 1944, in New York (New York), United States.
Painter.
Neo-Plasticism.
De Stijl.
Piet Cornelis Mondrian was born into a strict Calvinist family. His father, the headmaster of a primary school in Amersfoort, insisted that his son secure his future by obtaining a degree in education. Mondrian complied with his father’s wishes and obtained formal qualifications enabling him to teach drawing and composition at secondary-school level. In 1892, however, Mondrian enrolled at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, where he is recorded as having been a diligent student. In order to earn some money, Mondrian gave drawing lessons in his spare time, sold copies of paintings that hung in local art galleries, and produced industrial blueprints. He maintained a close relationship with Jan Sluijters and Simon Maris, accompanying the latter on a trip to Spain in 1901....
German, 20th century, male.
Active from 1937 to 1954 active then naturalised in the Netherlands.
Born 1897 or 1899, in Osnabrück (Westphalia); died 1963, in Ulm.
Painter, collage artist.
Groups: 'K', De Stijl, Der Sturm, Cercle et Carré, Abstraction-Création.
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart studied interior design and architecture in ...
