Theo van Doesburg
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Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg.
Theo 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
De Stijl
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De Stijl, incorporating the ideas of Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden, consisting of artists and architects. The term De Stijl is also used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 created in the Netherlands. Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour. They simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colors.
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