# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theo-van-doesburg
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:23.607Z

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name: "Theo van Doesburg"
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description: "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."
tagline: "Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)"
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deathDate: "1931-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.