Piet Mondrian
1872–1944 · De Stijl · 6 works
Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, in 1872 and began by painting Dutch landscapes. In Paris from 1912 to 1914 he carried Cubism to the edge of abstraction. Back home he slowly limited his pictures to black lines on white and the three primary colors. With Theo van Doesburg he founded the journal De Stijl in 1917.
6 works · 1905–1927
1905–1907 · 3 works
Walk these 3Two painters reached abstraction by different roads. Piet Mondrian began with Dutch fields, farms and trees and slowly reduced them to straight lines and flat color. Vasily Kandinsky, in Munich, let color and line work like music. The works hang by date, and the roads do not run evenly: Mondrian still painted a farm around 1916.
In the museum: De Stijl room · 3 works
1916–1927 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: De Stijl room · 3 works
