# Theo van Doesburg

> He founded De Stijl, the Dutch art movement that reduced the world to straight lines, primary colors, and right angles — then spent the 1920s arguing with everyone who tried to bend them.

*Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Architect
- **Category:** Architects
- **Country:** Netherlands
- **Born:** 1883-08-30
- **Died:** 1931-03-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Christian Emil Marie Küpper in August 1883, he reinvented himself as Theo van Doesburg and in 1917 launched De Stijl, gathering painters, architects, and designers around a vision of pure geometric abstraction. He wrote, painted, built, and proselytized across Europe, turning the movement into a manifesto with legs. The rigidity that made De Stijl revolutionary also made it combustible: he split with Piet Mondrian over diagonal lines, feuded with collaborators, and pushed the doctrine until it fractured. He died in Switzerland in March 1931, forty-seven years old, having left modern design sharper and less forgiving.

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## Topics
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