Theo van Doesburg founded the journal De Stijl in 1917 and became the movement’s great organizer, polemicist and network-builder. He worked across painting, typography, architecture and interiors, eventually introducing diagonal compositions under the name Elementarism, a move that contributed to his split with Piet Mondrian.
Painting; architecture; design; typography; writing
Major Works
- 1917Composition VII (The Three Graces)
- 1918Composition VIII (The Cow)
- 1924Counter-Composition V
- 1925Counter-Composition VI
- 1929–30Simultaneous Counter-Composition
- 1929–30Arithmetic Composition
- 1926–28Aubette interiors
- 1916–17Card Players
- 1925–26Contra-Composition XIII
- 1918Rhythm of a Russian Dance
Interviews & Writing
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