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Artist: Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931)
Nationality: Dutch
Movement: De Stijl
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Dutch painter, designer, and architect, Theo van Doesburg adopted an early style that was highly influenced by Impressionism, Expressionism, and Cubism. In 1915, he met Mondrian and switched his approach to that of total abstraction. He co-founded the De Stijl movement in 1917 and devoted his career to spreading the group’s ideas. During the 1920’s he traveled across Europe promoting his artistic beliefs, settling only for a short time from 1922 to 1924 to teach at the Bauhaus. In the same decade, he switched from his horizontal and vertical line compositions and began incorporating diagonals in his series, Counter-Compositions. Doesburg titled this new style, Elementarism. He moved to Paris in 1929, set up a studio in the suburbs and published a manifesto of Concrete art a year later. In his final year, he held a meeting in his studio that resulted in the founding of the Abstraction-Creation association.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Joan Miro Foundation: Jean Arp: A Retrospective
Jean Arp (Strasbourg, 1886 – Basle, 1966), sculptor, painter and poet, moved to Zurich during the First World War. There, in 1916, together with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and Richard Huelsenbeck, he founded the Dada movement, which had its centre o...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Avant Garde Graphics 1918-1934
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see posters, prints, book designs and political and commercial ephemera, together with original layouts and photomontages, produced by some of the most important artists working at that time. Bringing toget...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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Theo van Doesburg Online
Theo van Doesburg artist portrait, brief biography and art
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Guggenheim Collection - Artist - van Doesburg - Biography
Leiden Promotie VVV/ Stories of.... Theo van Doesburg
Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Artists: D: Doesburg, Theo van
HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results
Amazon.com: Books: Theo van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogue
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