Theo van Doesburg
 Theo and Nelly van Doesburg in the studio on Rue du Moulin Vert, Paris. 1923. | |
| Born |
August 30, 1883 Utrecht, Netherlands |
|---|---|
| Died |
March 7, 1931 (aged 47) Davos, Switzerland |
| Web | Dada Companion, Wikipedia |
| Collections | Institut Collectie Nederland, MoMA |
Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) was a Dutch artist, who practised painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst, 1925, PDF.
Contents
Publications
- De nieuwe beweging in de schilderkunst, Delft: Waltman, 1917. (Dutch)
- Drie voordrachten over de nieuwe beeldende kunst, Amsterdam, 1919, IDL. (Dutch)
- Klassiek, barok, modern, Antwerpen: De Sikkel, 1920, IDL. (Dutch)
- Wat is Dada?, The Hague: De Stijl, 1923. (Dutch)
- Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst, Munich: Albert Langen (Bauhausbücher, 6), 1925, 40+[26] pp. (German)
- Principles of Neo-Plastic Art, intro. Hans M. Wingler, afterw. H.L.C. Jaffé, trans. Janet Seligman, London: Lund Humphries, 1968, x+73 pp; Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1968, x+73 pp. (English)
- Atarashii zōkei geijutsu no kiso gainen [新しい造形芸術の基礎概念], trans. Hisao Miyajima, Tokyo: Chuo koron bijutsu shuppan, 1993. (Japanese)
- Principes fondamentaux de l'art néo-plastique, trans. Isabelle Ewig and Didier Semin, Paris: Beaux-arts de Paris, 2008, [112] pp. (French)
- More
- van Doesburg's publications in Iowa Digital Library
- in Dutch at DBNL.
- in Dutch at Wikisource-NL.
- in German at Wikisource-DE.
- in French at Wikisource-FR.
- in English at Wikisource-EN.
Literature
- Robert P. Welsh, "Theo van Doesburg and Geometric Abstraction", in Nijhoff, Van Ostaijen, "De Stijl": Modernism in the Netherlands and Belgium in the First Quarter of the 20th Century, ed. & intro. Francis Bulhof, The Hague: Nijhoff, 1976, pp 76-94. (English)
- Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde. Constructing a New World, eds. Gladys Fabre and Doris Wintgens Hötte, London: Tate, 2010. Catalogue. (English)
