Piet Mondrian

Portrait of Mondiran
Piet Mondrian (left) and Nelly van Doesburg (right).
Paris, 1923.

A brief look into
the art and life of
Piet Mondrian

1872
Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, province of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam.
1892
1905
Willow Grove, painted by Mondiran in 1905
Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow,
c. 1905, oil on canvas, 35 × 45 cm, Dallas Museum of Art.
View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, painted by Mondiran in 1909
View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg,
1909, oil and pencil on cardboard, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1909
1910
Evening; Red Tree, painted by Mondiran in 1910
Evening; Red Tree (Avond; De rode boom),
1908–1910, oil on canvas, 70 × 99 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
Mondrian moved to Paris and changed his name, dropping an "a" from "Mondriaan", to emphasize his departure from the Netherlands.
The influence of the Cubist style of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque appeared almost immediately in Mondrian's work.
1911
1914
While visiting the Netherlands World War I began, forcing him to remain there for the duration of the conflict.
Mondrian returned to France, where he fully embraced the art of pure abstraction for the rest of his life.
1918
He makes his first grid-based painting.
1919
Mondrian's paintings arrive to their definitive and mature form. Thick black lines now separate the forms, which are larger and fewer in number, and more of the forms are left white.
1921
1921
Tableau I,
1921, Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, painted by Mondiran in 1930
Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow,
1930, Kunsthaus Zürich
1930
1938
Mondrian left Paris in the face of advancing fascism and moved to London.
He left London for Manhattan in New York City
1940
1942
Composition No. 10, painter by Mondrian between 1939 and 1942
Composition No. 10
1939–1942, oil on canvas, private collection.
New York City I
1942, Paris, Centre Pompidou.
1942
1943
His painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie at The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan was highly influential in the school of abstract geometric painting.
Victory Boogie Woogie, painter by Mondrian between 1942 and 1944
Victory Boogie Woogie
1942–1944, Kunstmuseum Den Haag
1944
1944
Died of pneumonia and was interred at the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
















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"Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality."
Piet Mondrian