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Piet Mondrian

PEET MON-dree-ahn
Also Known As Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, who restyled his name Piet Mondrian around 1911, was a Dutch painter born in Amersfoort in 1872 and died in New York City in 1944. With Theo van Doesburg he co-founded the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands in 1917, and developed the theory he called Neoplasticism, set out across twelve installments of De Nieuwe Beelding in de Schilderkunst (1917-1918) and later published in French as Le Neoplasticisme (1920), reducing painting to horizontal and vertical black lines and the three primary colors alongside black, white and gray.

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Birth Year
1872 1
Death Year
1944 1
Nationality
Dutch 1
Birthplace
Amersfoort, Netherlands 1
Death Place
New York City, United States 1
Classification
Gender
Male 1
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In Movement

De Stijl, Movements

Co-founder of De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg in 1917; his own Neoplasticism essay is already cited as the movement's key-principle source.

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Works Created

Painted by Piet Mondrian, 1942-1943.

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  • Piet Mondrian, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
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    Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, who restyled his name Piet Mondrian around 1911, was a Dutch painter born in Amersfoort in 1872 and died in New York City in 1944.
  • Works Created: Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_with_Red,_Blue_and_Yellow
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