De Stijl
Photo: Marco Raaphorst from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", is an artistic movement founded in Leiden in the second half of the First World War. De Stijl was a minimalist movement, reducing art and architecture to the most essential of colours and shapes. The ideas of the movement were mostly propagated through a magazine of the same name, which was set up by artist Theo van Doesburg. Some of the other key figures in the movement are Piet Mondriaan, J.J.P. Oud and Gerrit Rietveld. Though the movement, which would go on to influence the European avant-garde in the 1930s, was oriented to the world, De Stijl is nowadays seen more as a typical Dutch artistic movement.
UnderstandIn the years before World War I, a growing number of Dutch artists was working with abstraction to some degree. They were influenced by the Cubist and Futurist movements, mostly by the Russian artist Kandinsky.
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BuyDe Stijl lives on to this day. Many of the buildings created during the movement are still standing.
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- Photo: Marco Raaphorst from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons