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 ...
(b Utrecht, Aug 30, 1883; d Davos, Switzerland, March 7, 1931).
Dutch painter, architect, designer and writer. He was officially registered as the son of Wilhelm Küpper and Henrietta Catharina Margadant, but he was so convinced that his mother’s second husband, Theodorus Doesburg, was his father that he took his name. Little is known of his early life, but he began painting naturalistic subjects c. 1899. In 1903 he began his military service, and around the same time he met his first wife, Agnita Feis, a Theosophist and poet. Between about 1908 and 1910, much influenced by the work of Honoré Daumier, he produced caricatures, some of which were later published in his first book De maskers af! (1916). Also during this period he painted some Impressionist-inspired landscapes and portraits in the manner of George Hendrik Breitner. Between 1914 and 1915 the influence of Kandinsky became clear in such drawings as Streetmusic I and Streetmusic II (The Hague, Rijksdienst Beeld. Kst) and other abstract works....
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....
(b Amersfoort, March 7, 1872; d New York, Feb 1, 1944).
Dutch painter, theorist, and draughtsman. His work marks the transition at the start of the 20th century from the Hague school and Symbolism to Neo-Impressionism and Cubism. His key position within the international avant-garde is determined by works produced after 1920. He set out his theory in the periodical of De Stijl, in a series of articles that were summarized in a separate booklet published in Paris in 1920 under the title Le Néo-plasticisme (see Neo-plasticism) by Léonce Rosenberg. The essence of Mondrian’s ideas is that painting, composed of the most fundamental aspects of line and colour, must set an example to the other arts for achieving a society in which art as such has no place but belongs instead to the total realization of ‘beauty’. The representation of the universal, dynamic pulse of life, also expressed in modern jazz and the metropolis, was Mondrian’s point of departure. Even in his lifetime he was regarded as the founder of the most ...
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 ...
