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Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1959. Softcover in screen-printed illustrated wraps. A catalogue prepared to accompany the exhibition in the spring of 1959. Text in Dutch, by Bart van der Leck. Unpaginated (30pp) with 25 b/w illustrations plus illustrated covers. Photo-portrait of Bart van der Leck as frontispiece. Checklist with 71 works in the exhibition. 10" high X 7 1/2" wide. ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerrit Rietveld, Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Rietveld Schröder House, Jacobus Oud, Bart Van Der Leck, Red and Blue Chair, Vilmos Huszár, César Domela, Georges Vantongerloo, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, Jakob Van Domselaer, Victory Boogie-Woogie, Rietveld Joint, M. H. J. Schoenmaekers. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian (Dutch pronunciation: , later ; March 7, 1872 February 1, 1944), was a Dutch painter. He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. Mondrian's birthplace in Amersfoort, Netherlands, now The Mondriaan House, a museum.Mondrian was born in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, the second of his parents' children. He was descended from Christian Dirkzoon Monderyan who lived in the Hague as early as 1670. The family moved to Winterswijk when his father, Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan, was appointed head teacher at a local primary school. Between his 1905 painting 'The River Amstel' and his 1907 'Amaryllis', Mondrian changed the spelling of his signature from Mondriaan to Mondrian. Mondrian was introduced to art from a very early age: his father was a qualified drawing teacher, and with his uncle, Fritz Mondriaan (a pupil of Willem Maris of The Hague School of artists), the younger Piet often painted and drew along the river Gein. After a strictly Protestant upbringing, in 1892, Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam, already qualified as a teacher. He began his career as a teacher in primary education, bu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4865795 ... Read more