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Piet Mondrian lived in this house, now the Villa Mondriaan, in Winterswijk, from 1880 to 1892. Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the second of his parents' children. [1] He was descended from Christian Dirkzoon Monderyan who lived in The Hague as early as 1670. [2]
The museum lies in the historical centre of Amersfoort. The museum building also includes the structure of the Christian primary school, where Mondrian's father served as the headmaster. In 1994, architect Leo Heidenrijk and his wife Cis converted the location into the Mondriaan House, making it accessible to the general public.
Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981) was an early 20th-century Russian-American painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Martine Theodora Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-Canadian art historian and art critic in modern art. Her specializations are the work of Piet Mondrian, the relationship between art and Western Esotericism, especially Modern Theosophy and Anthroposophy, and Nazi plunder of books during the Second World War.
Alongside Mondrian, Jan Toorop, and Jacoba van Heemskerck stayed in the town, painting the sea, the beaches, and town. [5] Mondrian visited Domburg in 1908, staying at the Loverendale Villa, the summer home of van Heemskerck and Marie Tak van Poortvliet, where he painted various landscapes. He later returned in 1909 with his friend Corenlis Spoor.
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue is Mondrian's first painting after the publication of this essay, visually representing these ideals by stripping away all recognizable forms of physical objects and even the outlines of individual brushstrokes.
Albert Jean Gorin (2 December 1899 – 29 March 1981) was a French neoplastic painter and constructive sculptor. He was a disciple of Piet Mondrian, and remained true to the concept of rigid geometricism and use of primary colors, but pushed the limits of neoplasticism by introducing circles and diagonals.
His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and he is a follow [2] er of the Hard-edge school. His best-known paintings constitute maximally reduced forms, characterized by just two colors on a canvas meeting in a sharply delineated edge, often on an unframed canvas of unusual shape.