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Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter (1872–1944)

  • Fame64.6
  • Momentum1.9
  • Netherlands rank#106
Source-basedStable
  • Fame64.6
  • Momentum1.9
  • Netherlands rank#106
  • Artists rank#100
  • Wikipedia53K
Lived 1872–1944, aged 72Netherlands
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    75 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Netherlands
    #106
    Artists
  • Era
    1872–1944
    Aged 72
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

He boiled painting down to lines and primary colors — red, yellow, blue grids on white — and called it universal beauty. The rest of the art world is still living in the vocabulary he built.

Biography

About

Born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan in the Netherlands in 1872, he started as a figurative painter before something shifted. In 1912 he moved to Paris, encountered Cubism, dropped an 'a' from his surname, and began stripping away everything he considered tied to the material world. By 1914 he'd declared that art must stand above reality to approach the spiritual, and he meant it literally. He co-founded De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg and developed what he called Neoplasticism — a formal system reduced to three primary colors, black, white, gray, and only horizontal and vertical lines. He believed…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian
said
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
— Written note in Mondrian's sketchbook around 1911; quoted in Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co.,1964, p. 11
Piet Mondrian
said
You can so wonderfully be yourself here [in Paris].
— Quote of Mondrian from his postcard to a Dutch girlfriend, Paris 1911 (written in his first week in Paris), by Mondrian's recent biographer
Piet Mondrian
said
He [ Jan Toorop, an older and famous Dutch religious painter] sees the Catholic faith as A.
— Quote in Mondrian's letter to , Domburg October 1910; Van Ginneken and Joosten, op. cit. (note 26), pp. 263; as cited in Mondrian, - The
Piet Mondrian
said
It was during this early period of experiment that I first went to Paris. The time was around 1910 when Cubism was in its beginnings.
— Quote of Mondrian about 1910; in 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet
Piet Mondrian
said
Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.
— Quote, written note beneath a drawing in Mondrian's sketchbook, 1910/11; as cited in: Abstract Painting, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing
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Fame
Stable
64.6
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Score components
Momentum1.9
Historical25.9
Now attention16.8
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#106
Category rank
#100
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