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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.

Theo Van Doesburg

Hannah Höch / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Merz 6

Imitatoren watch step! / Magazine / Letterpress / 14.3 x 22.3 cm / Hannover, 1923 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Abstraction création art non figuratif

Magazine / Letterpress / 21.2 x 27.8 cm / Paris, 1932-1936

Ljubomir Micić / Jozef Peeters / Michel Seuphor / Philippe Soupault / Émile Malespine / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Lajos Kassák / László Moholy-Nagy / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Piet Mondriaan

Manomètre

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

Willi Baumeister / Naum Gabo / Hannes Meyer / Jan Tschichold / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Walter Dexel / Oskar Nerlinger / Georges Vantongerloo / Lajos Kassák / El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky) / Kazimir Maljevič / Vladimir Mayakovsky / László Moholy-Nagy / Vladimir Tatlin / Piet Mondriaan

ABC

Beiträge zum Bauen / Periodical / 24.7 x 34.5 cm / Basel, 1924-1928

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

Cercle et carré

Magazine / Offset / 23.8 x 32.2 cm / Paris, 1930

František Kupka / Georges Vantongerloo / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Vouloir

Revue mensuelle d'esthétique néo-plastique / Magazine / Letterpress / 25.4 x 32.4 cm / Lille, 1924-1927

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

i10

Internationale revue / Magazine / Letterpress / 21 x 30 cm / Amsterdam, 1927-1929

Wyndham Lewis / Umberto Boccioni / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Crotti / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Raoul Hausmann / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Mécano

Magazine / Letterpress / Various sizes / Leiden, 1922-1924

Gerrit Rietveld / Gino Severini / Bart van der Leck / César Domela / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Arp / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

De Stijl

Magazine / Letterpress / 20.7 x 28.6 cm / Delft / Leiden / Meudon, 1921-1932

Enrico Prampolini / Walter Serner / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Bleu

Magazine / Letterpress / 25 x 37 cm / Mantova, 1920-1921