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Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch painter, writer, poet, and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
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culture · Dutch artist (1883–1931) · poet · painter · architect · writer · graphic designer · photographer · art theorist · designer · furniture designer · interior designer · also Theo van Doesburg, Christiaan Emil Maria Kupper, I. K. Bonset, Christiaan Emil Maria Kupper Doesburg, Christian Emil Marie Kupper, Theo Van Doesburg
Born 30 August 1883 · Died 7 March 1931 · Q160422
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2025· 1 entry
1992· 1 entry
Acquired the artwork, which was donated to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in 2010
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Sikkens Prize (1968).
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1931· 1 entry
Died 1931-03-07.
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1929· 2 entries
And Abstraction-Création, which he co-founded in 1931
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The two men reconciled when they accidentally met in a café in Paris
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1925· 1 entry
“We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a colour, a surface. [quote of Van Doesburg, c. 1925]”
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1923· 1 entry
Van Doesburg moved to Paris, together with his later wife Nelly van Moorsel
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1922· 1 entry
Deciding to make an impression on the Bauhaus principal, Walter Gropius, to spread the influence of the movement
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1919· 1 entry
Has been revived in digital form as Architype Van Doesburg
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1918· 1 entry
“..art and life are no longer separate domains.. .The word 'art' no longer has anything to say to us. In place of that, we [=De Stijl-artists ] insist upon the construction of our surroundings according to creative laws, deriving from a fixed principle. (quote of 1918)”
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1915· 2 entries
“Mondrian realizes the importance of line. The line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important. The white canvas is almost solemn. Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything—that is, the spiritual”
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(halfway through his two-year service in the army), Van Doesburg reviewed an exhibition by Piet Mondrian for a magazine article
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1913· 1 entry
After reading Wassily Kandinsky's Rückblicke, an autobiographical retrospective on Kandinsky's life and artwork
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1912· 1 entry
Van Doesburg began criticizing Futurism in his articles: "The mimetic expression of velocity (whatever its form may be: the aeroplane, the automobile, and so on) is diametrically opposed to the character of painting, the
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1883· 2 entries
Born 1883-08-30.
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Theo van Doesburg was born Christian Emil Marie Küpper on 30 August 1883, in Utrecht, Netherlands, as the son of the photographer Wilhelm Küpper and Henrietta Catherina Margadant.
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