Piet
Mondrian
Birth name: Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈmɔndrijaːn])
Known-as: Piet Mondrian (Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn])
Date: 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944)
>> Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th
century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
1892- Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam, already qualified as a teacher.
1911- Mondrian moved to Paris and changed his name (dropping an 'a' from Mondriaan) to emphasize his departure from the Netherlands.
1915- Mondrian, Van Doesburg, and together with related artists Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud, they founded the magazine De Stijl in 1917.
1919 - 1938- Mondrian returned to France and worked exclusively with vertical and horizontal lines and with white, black, and the three primary colors—the strongest and purest possible contrasts.