Bart van der Leck
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Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876,
Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make
After having met Mondrian and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, his style became completely abstract, as did Mondrian's. But after disagreements with Mondrian his abstract style became based on representational images. His painting Triptych is an example, in which he transformed sketches of a mine in Spain into seemingly abstract shapes.[1]
In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for
Bart van der Leck claimed to be the father of the avant-garde movement. In his own words he said: "Mondrian came to my place one day with Doesburg, whom I had never seen before. When Doesburg noticed an abstract painting right on the easel, he exclaimed: 'If that is to be the painting of the future, may I be hanged right now!' Well, a few months later, he was painting in precisely that manner. That's the sort of person Doesburg was. No ideas of his own. And a cheat in bargain... ."[2]
Public collections
Among the public collections holding works by the artist are:
- The Netherlands
- Kröller-Müller Museum
References
- ^ a b Blotkamp (1994).
- ^ Seuphor (1971).
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Sources
- Blotkamp, Carel (1982). De Stijl: the formative years. The MIT Press.
- Blotkamp, Carel (1994). Mondrian: The Art of Destruction. Reaktion Books Ltd.
- Seuphor, Michael (1971). Piet Mondrian. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc. p. 138.
- Haley, Allen. Type: Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts. Rockport Publishers Inc, Gloucester; 1998. ISBN 1-56496-317-9
- Hoek, Els, Marleen Blokhuis, Ingrid Goovaerts, Natalie Kamphuys, et al. Theo van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogus. ISBN 90-6868-255-5.
- Toos van Kooten (ed.). Bart van der Leck. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 1994 (in Dutch).
External links
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