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De Stijl (/ d ə ˈ s t aɪ l /, Dutch: [də ˈstɛil]; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren (Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck).
Although De Stijl was made up of many members, Van Doesburg was the "ambassador" of the movement, promoting it across Europe. He moved to Weimar in 1922, deciding to make an impression on the Bauhaus principal, Walter Gropius , to spread the influence of the movement.
De Stijl (/ d ə ˈ s t aɪ l /, Dutch: [də ˈstɛil]; "The Style") was an artistic movement in the 1920s. The movement is also known as neoplasticism — the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch).
The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld.It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. It was not painted its distinct colors until the early 1920s.
The development of the Swiss style is associated with the formation of new principles in graphic design and is correlated with a number of prototypes, in particular, such as De Stijl, Russian constructivism, the Bauhaus school, International Typographic Style, etc. [11] Ernst Keller had a fundamental influence on the development of the Swiss ...
Jan Wils (Alkmaar, 22 February 1891 – Voorburg, 11 February 1972) was a Dutch architect known for his design of the Olympic Stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Wils joined Johan Mutters 's office in The Hague in 1914 but left two years later to start his own firm.
One of the first American designers to integrate Swiss design with his own was Rudolph de Harak. [17] The influence of International Typographic Style on de Harak's own works can be seen in his many book jacket designs for McGraw-Hill publishers in the 1960s.
He sketched the first possible design for the building; Schröder-Schrader was not pleased. She envisioned a house that was free from association and could create a connection between the inside and outside. The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building. Mrs.