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• Piet Mondrian
 
MONDRIAN Piet, (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan);
born 1872 Amersfoort (near Utrecht) - 1944 New York.
Dutch painter.

  
  1892-97 Studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam under A. Allebé.
  
  1904/05 Lived in Brabant and Overijssel. Developed an abstract style early in his career.
  
  until 1906 painted landscapes in the style of the Impressionists from Amsterdam and The Hague.
  
  1905/06 Did scientific drawings for Professor Calcan in Leiden.
  
  1909 Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Vehement criticism of his free, Fauvist-style landscapes.
  
  1911-14 Lived in Paris. Cubist phase.
  
  1914 Returned to Holland, living in Amsterdam, Laren, Blaricum, Scheveningen and Domburg.
  
  1915 Met van Doesburg.
  
  1917 Founded the artists' group De Stiji with van Doesburg, and published his series of articles on 'The New Structuring of Painting' in the 'De Stijl' magazine.
  
  1917 First plus-minus compositions, paintings with rhythmic horizontal and vertical lines.
  
  1918 Geometric grid paintings.
  
  1919 Returned to Paris.
  
  1920 Publication of his treatise 'Le Neo Plasticisme'.
  
    Around 1920 abstract paintings of coloured rectangles outlined in black.
  
  1921 Reduced his palette to three pure primary colours plus black, white and grey.
  
  1930 Joined the group 'Cercle et Carré'.
  
  1931 Joined 'Abstraction-Création'.
  
  1938 Moved to London.
  
  1940 Emigrated to America, settling in New York.
  
 
Last change of style: framework of black lines replaced by coloured lines and rows of small colourful rectangles.

  


image: piet mondrian 'tableau 1'

'tableau 1', 1921, oil on canvas,
60,5 x 96,5 cm (24 x 38 ")

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