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Informationen zum Autor Hans Janssen is Curator of Modern Art at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands. He has published many books on Modernist painting, especially on Mondrian. Michael White is a senior lecturer in History of Art working chiefly on the interwar avant-gardes: Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism. His previous publications include De Stijl and Dutch Modernism (2003 and 2009). Zusammenfassung In the early 1920s, a group of Dutch artists and architects influenced by some of the ideas of Dada, formed a movement called De Stijl (The Style). The Story of De Stijl presents work by Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, and the other members of this influential group, as well as archival photographs of the artists. The authors – experts in this seminal abstract style that encompassed painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, and more – explore the evolution of the movement not just through traditional art-historical analysis, but also through anecdotes, conversations, articles, and other contemporary sources. With more than 325 colour illustrations, The Story of De Stijl makes clear the lasting importance and influence of this once avant-garde movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword; Introduction; I - How most of the original protagonists meet and form De Stijl; 01 The famous architect and the headstrong artist: The design of the 'art room' at Groot Haesebroeck estate; 02 The downfall of the village: Mondrian! Laren and the search for an abstract life; 03 A new monumentality: Van Doesburg and Huszár at the Kröller-Müller collection in The Hague; 04 'Das colorierte Haus': The house for solicitor J. de Lange of Alkmaar; 05 Of different minds: The Hollandsche Kunstenaarskring exhibition of 1917; 06 By bike and by train: An art movement in the new urban environment called the Randstad; 07 Troubled waters: Houseboat De Stijl; 08 The living proof: Theories and arguments concerning the form of the new art; Entr'acte: Modernity in fashion; II - How the successful collaborations and stumbling blocks give shape to De Stijl; 09 Radical art and radical politics: The colour design for the house of Bart de Ligt in Katwijk aan Zee; 10 The ethics of straight lines: The Huszár - Zwart debate at the Haagsche Kunstkring; 11 A promising scheme: The enthusiastic response to the Papaverhof houses in The Hague and the marriage of Theo van Doesburg and Lena Milius; 12 Housing and collectivity: Oud and Van Doesburg and their almost invisible solutions for the Spangen apartment blocks in Rotterdam; 13 The dynamics of progress: The Section d'Or! Theo van Doesburg and Jan Toorop exhibition; 14 Dada and De Stijl: An artist writes about modern life; 15 'I am no house painter. I take these things very seriously?': The collaboration between Oud and Van Doesburg on the housing blocks for Spangen II; 16 For readers on the move: A new format for a modern magazine; 17 The birth of modern city planning: Van Eesteren meets Van Doesburg in Weimar; 18 The Dada Tour of Holland: Everything was dada! except the prices; 19 A Far Flung Corner of a World City: The businesslike but very Dutch solutions to the architecture in the Tusschendijken district; 20 'The practical execution of the Stijl idea': The Rosenberg exhibition; 21 How do you want to live?: An emancipated woman's views on child rearing! and the new architecture of the Rietveld-Schröder House; Entr'acte: Stylishly dressed; III - How the problems of 1925 turn De Stijl into a permanently disintegrating movement; 22 Counter-compositions: The role of dance and women in modern life; 23 The applied arts swindle: The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes! Paris! 1925; 24 'The cold kills the microbes': The City of Circulation; 25 A painting in three dimensions: The 'Salle des fleurs' for a lavish villa in the south of France; 26 'Not as sectarian as (the late!) "De Stijl"': ...
