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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Theo van Doesburg wrote "A short review of the proceedings" which included a proclamation calling for a permanent, universal, international exhibition of art from everywhere in the world and an annual universal, international music festival.
Theo van Doesburg. Architecture Analysis. 1923. Architecture, unlike painting, has less 'burden' of meaning. Architectural beauty, according to Van Doesburg, is mainly determined by mass ratio, rhythm and tension between the vertical and horizontal (to name just a few visual means in architecture).
Theo van Doesburg. Design for an exhibition poster for La Section d'Or, c 1920. Ink on paper, 65 × 62,5 cm, Instituut Collectie Nederland. After World War I, with the support given by the dealer Léonce Rosenberg, Cubism returned as a central issue for artists.