Artist: Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)
Nationality: Dutch
Movement: Neoplasticism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Holland as Pieter Cornelius Mondrian, he was raised in a strict Calvinist home that shaped his early interests in religion and philosophy. he shortened his name upon his departure for Paris in 1909. There he encountered the Cubists, his strongest influence being Henri Matisse. His paintings evolved from still life to abstract, geometric fields of color. He founded the De Stijl movement in 1917, which eventually aided the creation of Neoplasticism. After the destruction of his studio in 1938, Mondrian moved to New York, where he died in 1944.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Artist: Piet Mondrian Title: Irises Date: about 1908 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.30-1/4 x
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Composition in White, Red, and Yellow, Piet Mondrian (Holland, 1872 - 1944)  (Artist), 1936, Oil on canvas
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Piet Mondrian Title: Drydock at Durgerdam Date: about 1906 Medium: watercolor and gouache Dimensions:
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After Piet Mondrian, Sherrie Levine (United States, Pennsylvania, Hazelton, born 1947) , 1984, Watercolor
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Piet Mondrian Title: Landscape Date: about 1907 Medium: pastel and black chalk on tan
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Piet Mondrian Title: Chrysanthemum Date: 1900 Medium: charcoal and watercolor on off-white wove paper
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Piet Mondrian - Composition No. 8 1939-42 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Chrysanthemum 1906 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - A Forest c. 1905-1907 oil on paper laid on Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Farm Behind Willows 1905-1906 charcoal Arkansas Arts Center Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Place de la Concorde 1938-1943 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Brabant Farmyard 1904 oil on linen board m Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Composition No. 7 (Façade) 1914 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue 1927 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Chez Mondrian, Paris
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Piet Mondrian - View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers 1909 oil and pencil on ca The Museum of Modern Art French
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Piet Mondrian - Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray 1926 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray 1921 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray 1921 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Composition in Brown and Gray (Gemalde no. II / Composition no. IX / Compositie 5) 1913 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Composition with Blue and Yellow (Composition Bleu-Jaune) 1935 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum Dutch
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Piet Mondrian - Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black c. 1924-1925 oil on canvas on har National Gallery of Art Dutch
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Pietà, Jean Mignon (died N/A) , Etching and engraving
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Kameragymnastiek, Piet Zwart (Holland, Zaandijk, 1885 - 1977) , 1930s, Gelatin-silver print
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Piet Morell Torfstecher (Peat Cutter) Etching 20th century
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Untitled, Piet Zwart (Holland, Zaandijk, 1885 - 1977) , circa 1930, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Piet Stockmans (Belgium, Leopoldsburg, born 1940)  (Artist), 1998, Porcelain, wood, packing material
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Pietà, Karl Caspar (Germany, Friederichschafen, 1879 - 1956) , circa 1912, Lithograph on wove paper
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell Begrussung der Kaninchen... (Welcoming the Rabbits...) Etching 20th century
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Pietà: ’It is enough’, Oskar Kokoschka (Austria, Pöchlarn, 1886 - 1980) , 1914, Lithograph on Van Gelder Zonen paper
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Woman’s ’Mondrian’ Dress, Yves Saint Laurent (Algeria, 1936 - 2008-06-01) , 1965, Wool knit
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Lumberyard, Piet Zwart (Holland, Zaandijk, 1885 - 1977) , circa 1930, Gelatin silver print
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Chez Mondrian, André Kertész (Hungary, Budapest, 1894 - 1985) , 1926, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Der grope Konig Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Die Kleine konventionelle Lok Etchings and drypoints 1964
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Die drei Gesandten Etchings and drypoints 1964
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Spider Webs, Piet Zwart (Holland, Zaandijk, 1885 - 1977) , 1930, printed 1930, Gelatin-silver print
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Hilfsmabnahmen furdas Land Zwangsala Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Doppelseitiger Prozess. Ein unterirdischer Playboy Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Chez Mondrian, Paris, 1926, André Kertész (Hungary, Budapest, 1894 - 1985) , 1926, printed later, Gelatin-silver print
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Der Schafer von Humi Den Mond wachsen Etchings and drypoints 1964
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Camera Lenses, Piet Zwart (Holland, Zaandijk, 1885 - 1977) , 1930 circa, printed 1930 circa, Gelatin-silver print
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Die Gesandten eines schrecklich gehornten Fauns Etchings and drypoints 1967
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Piet Morell One of a Series of twelve etchings and drypoints: Die grosse majestatische Mutter. Im Priesterlichen Gewand Etchings and drypoints 20th century
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Hommage à Mondrian IV, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian IX, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian III, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian II, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian I, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian XIV, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian XXI, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian V, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph
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Hommage à Mondrian VI, Jack Lemon (born 1936) , 1966, Lithograph

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Dallas Museum of Art: The Transatlantic Paintings: Work by Piet Mondrian
The Transatlantic Paintings, organized by the Harvard University Art Museums, examines Mondrians paintings from several perspectives: as unique documents of the “intellectual migration” from Europe to America around World War II; as the means by...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
While many paintings by Mondrian have been damaged by overly aggressive conservation treatment, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red is in impeccable condition. For decades the design of Mondrian’s works was considered the most critical a...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
Drawing upon public and private collections in Europe and America, the exhibition will unite for the first time fifteen of Mondrian's seventeen transatlantic paintings, including works from the Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Modern, The Phillips C...
UnScene Photography Tour: Call for Artists: Photography Tour - UnScene San Diego and UnScene Scottsdale
WHEN:
UnScene Scottsdale
November 15
Mondrian Scottsdale (7353 East Indian School Road)
7-10 p.m. UnScene San Diego
November 20
W San Diego (421 West B Street)
7-10 p.m. HOW:
Whether they ...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art: Zeger Reyers: Aqua Boogie

Swiss Institute Contemporary Art: Dust Memories: Mel Bochner, Fabrice Gygi, Jonathan Monk, Piet Mondrian, Cornelia Parker
EXTRA asked us to search for the limits of reality and pushed us to conclude with a meditation on its limitlessness. Accepting this assumption of the unbounded nature of reality, DUST MEMORIES asks that we look into the supposed empty corners of o...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Studiolo: As Presented by Avigdor Arikha
The curator of the first exhibition is Avigdor Arikha, a painter as well as a brilliant writer, lecturer, exhibition curator and maker of documentaries on painting. Arikha has devoted himself to working from life, producing paintings and drawings ...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit: Game Show Detroit
Jurors for Game Show are celebrated game designer and University of Michigan Professor of Education Emeritus Fred Goodman along with CAID Board Members Nick Sousanis and Andy Malone. “Game Show is designed to appeal to people of all ages and backg...
Guggenheim Museum: 1900: Art at the Crossroads
1900 also extends to more conservative figures such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, born in 1825 but still espoused by academicians at the turn of the century, as well as to the stylistically divergen...
Museum of Modern Art: The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream
One extreme was defined by the pure abstractions of painters such as Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who sought the systematic restructuring of reality through emphasis on the logic of form. For example, the spare black and white ...
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...
33 Collective Gallery, Zhou B. Center: Midwest Paint Group, (MPG): Post Abstract-Figuration
Noted painter and Art theorist Gabriel Laderman, in the program introduction to the exhibit, describes the group as being a part of a contemporary movement of figurative painters “who have been profoundly influenced by modernist abstraction”. Expl...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
The Wall Gallery: Leyla Murr : Latest Works
IMAGE
Leyla Murr
Title: Springtime 1
Year Created: 2007
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 52 cm
Height: 72 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Price: US$ 700
Freight and Volume: Peter Gallo: Goodbye Picasso
In the tradition of punk, neo-punk, Lettrism and Situationism, Gallo steals the words and images of others for his own ends; snippets from Roland Barthes, Freud, Mondrian, Tony Shafrazis famous vandalisation of Guernica (Kill All Lies), and queer ...
Reading Museum, Blake's Lock Museum: Homages and Other Things: Lorenzo Belenguer
Lorenzo Belenguer was born in Valencia, on Spain‚s Mediterranean coast, in 1970. After obtaining a degree in Economics at the local University in 1993, he decided he wanted to take his life in a different conceptual and geographic direction. He ...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century
Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructiv...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: TheFlower as Image: 150 Works by the World’s Greatest Artists
It is thus the ambition of the exhibition to show how, throughout the epoch of modern art, the artists use, treat, challenge, express and experiment with the flower and its potential in the artistic process. Or, to put it differently, with the flo...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Akron Art Museum: Lee Krasner
The traveling exhibition comprises sixty paintings, collages, and drawings on loan from major collections around the world. Together, these works-many of them not publicly exhibited in decades-present the complete trajectory of Krasner's work. ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...
ShanghArt: Ding Yi: Works from 1989 to 2006
Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, invited Ding Yi to hold a retrospective exhibition of his works end of last year. It was one of the rare solo exhibitions of a mainland Chinese artist in a major international museum. The exhibition was a big succes...
Guggenheim Museum: The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection
This exhibition is sponsored by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and Delta Air Lines. The permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation constitutes the very core of the institution, said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenhei...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Roy Lichtenstein: Classic of the New
For more than three decades, Roy Lichtenstein (born in 1923 in New York; died in 1997 in New York) managed to stay true to his artistic sources and at the same time to stylistically expand the different thematic groups, to interlink and vary th...
Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a renewed interest. Beginning with P...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Jytte Hoy: A HIstorical Alphabet for You
– Those two words simply kept haunting me. They wanted something to do with each other. They just kept coming at me until one day it suddenly dawned on me: Composition A and D-Day – what do they have in common? They both have that initial. Aha, so...
Auckland Art Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
The selection shows how McCahon sought to give visual representation to these existential issues of the human condition by using and modernising the Western Judeo-Christian artistic tradition.The exhibition, which is free to the public, feature...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
SLO Arts Gallery, Frame Works: James A. Crawford: New Photographic
Crawford's interest in art began in high school and further developed at Orange Coast College where he majored in Architecture and minored in History and Art. In 1966 while in Viet Nam he purchased his first 35mm camera and with limited time, he w...
Akademie der Kuenste: SPACE. Sites for Art
“SPACE. Sites for Art” is a first attempt to reveal and discuss this situation in the current horizon of the arts and in their interdisciplinary philosophical and motific dimensions. In both of the Academy’s buildings, the exhibition investi...
Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist. The show is divid...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith
A Question of Faith arrives in Wellington direct from the prestigious Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where large audiences experienced the New Zealand artist's work, often for the first time. "We are very proud that City Gallery Wellington is the ...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Kunstverein Hannover: Jonathan Monk: yesterday today tomorrow etc
His photographs, drawings, objects, installations, and films reproduce existing works and models, follow up on them, reinterpret them, and counteract them. His references range from Piet Mondrian to Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra to Dan Flavin as...
City Gallery Wellington: Stephen Bambury
I use the allure of beauty of surface, colour and space to provide a runway into the work., says Bambury. This offers people a 'painting experience', something you don't have with anything else in the world. Stephen Bambury is one of New ...
Art Institute of Chicago: Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated
From a young age, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was fully immersed in the active cultural life of Paris. Originally trained as a painter by his uncle and then apprenticed with the artist André Lhote, he was also an avid reader who found his wa...
Black and White Gallery: Mirror of Our Obsessions and Fears
VALERIE BOGDAN
Chaos, confusion, the beautiful and the sublime are all key components of my work. Kant describes the sublime as that which arouses enjoyment but with horror. He talks about how excitement and fascination are sometimes accompan...
Thomas Dane: Calder: The Forties
"The next step in sculpture is motion." Alexander Calder, New York World-Telegram, June 11, 1932. "my first work in the abstract was based on the concept of stellar relationships. Since then there have been variations from this theme, but I ...

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