P I E T . M O N D R I A N

enrolled in the Amsterdam Academy

of Fine Arts in 1892;

inspired by Van Gogh he lived in Uden

until 1904 painting primarily landscapes;

joined the Theosophical Society of Holland

in 1909, an alternative to Calvinism and

from which he later developed his theory of art;

settled in Paris in 1911;

exhibited cubist paintings at the

Salon des Independants in 1913;

founded "De Stijl" with van Doesberg in 1917;

in 1921 first rectilinear paintings;

in 1925 breaks completely with "De Stijl"

and settles for the spare grid with

occasional rectangles of red, yellow, blue;

settles in London in 1938 because of the pending war;

flees London for New York in 1940;

died in 1944 in New York after a four

year period of some of his most

brillant work.