What was up with Piet Mondrian and those kisses? Among the discoveries in a new biography of the pioneering abstract painter by Nicholas Fox Weber, “Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the ...

Piet Mondrian found fame, glory and fortune with his grid-like paintings filled with basic colours. But did many of his ideas came from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British tale ...

For six years, the most comprehensive biography ever written on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was only available in Dutch. Thanks to a new translation, English-speaking audiences can now learn more ...

While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of a brainy female Oxford University graduate. Henry Moore, his Belsize Park neighbour, ...

Piet Mondrian: A Life, Hans Janssen, Ridinghouse and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 424pp, €40 (pb) The first major biography in English of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a leading member of the ...

Piet Mondrian, the groundbreaking Dutch Modernist, is having a moment this fall. A new biography, Piet Mondrian: A Life, was released to rave reviews last month, and a retrospective marking the 150th ...

This new, deeply researched biography from a respected art historian traces the iconoclastic painter Piet Mondrian from his strict Calvinist upbringing in the rural Netherlands of the late 1800s to ...

The Dancing Dutchman who pioneered abstract art Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography of Piet Mondrian follows the artist’s movements through cities, styles and the steps to the latest jazz 4/5 Gift this ...

They are among the very most famous artworks left to us by the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian’s geometric canvases, white backgrounds overlaid with spare, uneven black lines, set off by a few ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...

The first major biography in English of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a leading member of the De Stijl movement, is by the late scholar Hans Janssen. The former curator at Kunstmuseum ...