150 years after his birth, Piet Mondrian It is still one of the most outstanding artists of all time, So this year a Exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen, Near Basel, Switzerland.
This Dutch artist was an outstanding figure of Stijl artistic movementwhich developed a iconic approach to painting that inspired the new generations of artists and designers.
We share the story of Piet Mondrian and the details of his works!
Piet Mondrian's works were characterized by abstraction, lines and primary colors.Getty images
Early years
Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan, better known as Piet Mondrian, He was born in Amersfoort in 1872. At age eight, his family moved to Winterswijkwhere he learned the foundations of the drawing and painting of his uncle and his father, local artists. Subsequently, he studied his passion in the Rijksakademie In Amsterdam.
In 1912, Mondrian He moved to Paris where the influence of Jazz and Cubists Like Picasso and Braque They were key in their formation. However, he returned to Holland during the World War I, where he started writing in the magazine Of StijL, an artistic magazine founded in 1917 by Theo Van Doesburg.
During the Second World War, Mondrian remained a brief period in London, until he finally settled in New York. His last work, «Victory Boogie-Woogie»was unfinished when he died of pneumonia in 1944, however, he is currently in a museum In The Hague.
Riehen's Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, prepares a Mondrian exhibition for this year.Tim Graham
What kind of art did Piet Mondrian do?
Mondrian's paintings became part of De Stijl's artistic movement, known as «Neoplasticism». These were characterized by reduced forms and vertical and horizontal black lines that enclosed primary colors: Blue, red and yellow.