Bart van der Leck (1876–1958)

Co-founder of De Stijl who went from stained glass to pure abstraction—and back again after clashing with Mondrian.

ABOUT

Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876 – 13 November 1958) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. == Biography == Van der Leck was born on 26 November 1876, in Utrecht. Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum. After having met Mondrian and van Doesburg and…

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NOTABLE WORKS

By moonlight 1907 · Centraal Museum Going home 1909 · Kröller-Müller Museum Factory girl 1910 · Kröller-Müller Museum The Sweet Shop 1910 · Kunstmuseum Den Haag Leaving the Factory 1910 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Artillery Drills 1911 · Kunstmuseum Den Haag

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Piet MondrianDe Stijl Theo van DoesburgDe Stijl Hendrik Petrus BerlageAmsterdam School

Influenced

Gerrit RietveldDe Stijl Vilmos HuszárDe Stijl Max BillConcrete Art Ellsworth KellyHard-edge Painting