Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)
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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.
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 desig…
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Dada is able to mobilize the optical and dimensional static viewpoint which keeps us imprisoned in our [three-dimensional] illusions.
At Weimar [ the Bauhaus art school I have radically overturned everything. This is the famous academy, which now has the most modern teachers!
Only a radical cleaning of social and artistic life as, in the domain of art, is already done by Dada, which is anti-sentimental and healthy to the core, since it is anti-art.
Perhaps it was his return to Paris [In June 1919 Piet Mondrian returned to Paris] that was needed to provide him with fresh new possibilities in his work. Invigoration.
The development of plastic art is determined by the will to visualize. Art of the past represented the subjective vision of 'naturalistic relationships'.
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