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Theo van Doesburg (Dutch: [ˈteːjoː vɑn ˈduzbʏr(ə)x]; 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl .
While portraying a common topic in art history - card players while smoking - the treatment was, in the 1910s, very new. Drawing on the new abstract style pioneered by Picasso, Kanindsky and Mondrian, van Doesburg's painting was executed while he and Mondrian were in the early days of the still developing De Stijl philosophy - a reaction to the natural looking paintings that were still common ...
Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract artists of the time.
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).
Theo van Doesburg's theory of Elementarism emerged from his evolving views on Neoplasticism, leading to a departure from the strict principles upheld by Piet Mondrian. While Mondrian adhered to the exclusive use of horizontal and vertical lines to express equilibrium and balance, Van Doesburg introduced diagonal lines, which he believed added ...
The work was created while Van Doesburg lived in Leiden. He would take the painting as he moved, first to Paris and later to his joint studio/accommodation in Meudon. When Van Doesburg died in 1931, it came into the possession of his widow Nelly van Doesburg. She bequeathed it to the Kunstmuseum in the Hague (then known as the Gemeentemuseum ...
Van Doesburg developed the theory of neoplasticism to include an evolutionary and therefore temporal element. [47] From 1919 onwards, through lectures and publications, [51] Van Doesburg worked to demonstrate that art slowly developed as a means of expression from the natural to a means of expression of the spiritual. [52]
Theo van Doesburg's cover design for Art Concret. Art Concret was a single-issue French-language art magazine published in Paris in 1930. It was the vehicle for a group of abstract artists who wished to differentiate themselves from others gathered around the magazine Cercle et Carré.
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