Piet Mondriaan
The Netherlands (1872—1944)
Born Pieter Mondriaan, he enrolled at the Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. In 1909 he joined the Theosophical Society, whose beliefs deeply influenced Mondrian concept of art and expression. In 1912 he moved to Paris and discovered Analytic Cubism, shifting from figurative landscapes to frameworks and colour grid. As WWI broke out he could not leave Holland and developed his style more independently. With Theo Van Doesburg he founded the De Stijl journal in 1917. In this he promoted the Neo-Plasticism as a new way of representing reality. After WWI he moved back to Paris, where he produced his most iconic paintings, and later to London, where he met Peggy Guggenheim, who introduced him to the New York artistic scene. Here his visual language further evolved using double lines, colour lines and no lines at all. He created his Broadway Boogie Woogie in 1943, just a year before his death.
Vouloir
Revue mensuelle d'esthétique néo-plastique / Magazine / Letterpress / 25.4 x 32.4 cm / Lille, 1924-1927
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Imitatoren watch step! / Magazine / Letterpress / 14.3 x 22.3 cm / Hannover, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Willi Baumeister / Enrico Prampolini / Michel Seuphor / Gino Severini / Joaquín Torres García / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman / César Domela / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Henryk Stażewski / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
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Mélange des langues, enregistre les idées, indique la pression sur tous les méridiens, est polyglotte et supranational / Magazine / 17.5 x 22.5 cm / Lyon, 1922-1928
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Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Lucia Moholy / Gerrit Rietveld / Paul Schuitema / Albert Renger-Patzsch / Max Burchartz / Martin Munkácsi / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan
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Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929
Max Bill / Naum Gabo / Jean Gorin / Bart van der Leck / István Beöthy (Etienne) / Luigi Veronesi / Jean Hélion / Auguste Herbin / František Kupka / Georges Vantongerloo / Katarzyna Kobro / Josef Albers / Jean Arp / Sonia Delaunay / Wassily Kandinsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan
Abstraction création art non figuratif
Magazine / Letterpress / 21.2 x 27.8 cm / Paris, 1932-1936
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