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The Cardplayers, 1917

Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg was a Danish artist born on August 30, 1883. van Doesburg contributed to the Early Modernist, and De Stijl movements and died on April 7, 1931. Get notified when Theo van Doesburg's biography is complete:

The Cardplayers

Rhythm of a Russian Dance

There is an old and a new consciousness of time

De Stijl Manifesto

Composition XIII

Variation on Composition XIII

Composition in Gray (Rag-time)

The Archer

The Denaturalized Material, Destruction 2

Counter Composition VI

Elementarism is the purest, and...the most direct means of expression of the human spirit

Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)

Simultaneous Counter-Composition

Umberto Boccioni

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

Piet Mondrian

There is no God, only Truth

Henri Matisse

100% artist

Piet Mondrian

There is no God, only Truth

Theo van Doesburg

Ending a friendship over diagonal lines

Charmion von Wiegand

Beyond the grid

Why can’t I stop painting my mother?

Umberto Boccioni

An orphan talks to angels

Madge Gill Theo van Doesburg

Cubist Feminist

Marie Laurencin

A future of dancers instead of machines

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