Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944) was a Dutch modern artist of the De stijl group. His early paintings show abstract landscapes in post-impressionist and cubist style.

Piet Mondrian
Nationality	Dutch
Field	Painting
Movement	De Stijl

Tableau I (Piet Mondriaan, 1921)

As his career went on, he started to paint in a more abstract style.

Mondrian painted about 250 of these geometric abstracts, from 1917 to 1944. Mondrian called his style “neoplasticism”.

Escaping in 1940 from a Europe at war, Mondrian spent the last four years of his life in New York City. His paintings of that time express exuberance at city life. In his final painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie (painted around 1942 or 1943), the checkerboard lines, previously black, are now painted blue, gray, red and yellow. The yellow was apparently inspired by New York’s Yellow cabs.

Further reading

• Bax, Marty 2002. Complete Mondrian. Lund Humphries, London. ISBN 978-0-85331-803-3
• Bois, Yve-Alain et al. 1995. Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944. Bulfinch Press. ISBN 978-0-8212-2164-8
• Busignani, Alberto 1968. Mondrian: the life and work of the artist, illustrated by 80 colour plates. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Locher, Hans 1994. Piet Modrian: colour, structure and symbolism. Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-906127-44-6
• Milner, John 1992. Mondrian. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-2659-6
• Seuphor, Michel & Harry N. Abrams 1955. Piet Mondrian, life and work.

Piet Mondrian Media

• 

  Mondrian's birthplace in Amersfoort, Netherlands, now The Mondriaan House, a museum.

• 

  Piet Mondrian lived in this house, now the Villa Mondriaan, in Winterswijk, from 1880 to 1892.

• 

  Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow, c. 1905, oil on canvas, 35 × 45 cm, Dallas Museum of Art

• 

  Piet Mondrian, Evening; Red Tree (Avond; De rode boom), 1908–1910, oil on canvas, 70 × 99 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

• 

  Spring Sun (Lentezon): Castle Ruin: Brederode, c. late 1909 – early 1910, oil on masonite, 62 × 72 cm, Dallas Museum of Art

• 

  Piet Mondrian, View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg, 1909, oil and pencil on cardboard, Museum of Modern Art, New York

• 

  Gray Tree, 1911, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, an early experimentation with Cubism

• 

  Anonymous. Piet Mondrian and Pétro (Nelly) van Doesburg in Mandrian's studio at Rue du Départ, Paris. 1923. Photo. Published (in altered form) in De Stijl, vol. VI, nr. 6/7 (1924): p. 86.

• 

  Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930, Kunsthaus Zürich