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De Stijl
.jpg) Theo van Doesburg, Composition VII (the three graces), 1917 | |
| Years active | 1917–1931 |
|---|---|
| Location | Netherlands |
| Major figures | Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld, J.J.P. Oud, Bart van der Leck |
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De Stijl (/də ˈstaɪl/, Dutch: [də ˈstɛil]; '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).[1][2]
De Stijl was also the name of a journal – published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, poet and critic Theo van Doesburg – that propagated the group's theories. Along with van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszár, Bart van der Leck, the architects J.J.P. Oud, Jan Wils, Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff, the sculptor and painter Georges Vantongerloo, and the poet and writer Antony Kok.
The art theory that formed the basis for the group's work was originally known as Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch, later translated to Neoplasticism in English. This theory was subsequently extended to encompass the principles of Elementarism.[3]
- ^ Blotkamp (1982), p. 18.
- ^ Wilkins, Schultz & Linduff (1994).
- ^ Jaffé (1970), pp. 25–27.
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