De Stijl was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden, Voorburg and Laren.
Theo van Doesburg, Composition VII (the three graces), 1917
De Stijl November 1921, Dadaism
De Stijl Manifesto I, November 1918
Red and Blue Chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld, version without colors 1919, version with colors 1923
Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch painter, writer, poet, and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
De Stijl
…De Stijl (, Dutch: ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, J. J. P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren (Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck). De Stijl was also the name of a journal – published…
Van Doesburg as Sergeant Küpper, c. 1915
Theo van Doesburg, Composition in Gray (Rag-time), 1919, Oil on canvas, 196.5 cm × 59.1 cm (77.4 in × 23.3 in), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976
Girl with Ranunculus, Oil on canvas, 1914, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Principal contributors to De Stijl 1917–1927