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 ...

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 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 ...

How did the work of a conceptually difficult abstract painter from the early 20th century come to be plastered on contemporary hotel décor, Yves Saint Laurent dresses, furniture, and jigsaw puzzles?

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 Gift this ...

WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...

The Mondrian that emerges from Nicholas Fox Weber’s long, thoroughly researched, and, in the end, heroic book is an odd bird, an unstoppable temperament and, yes, a great painter.

Piet Mondrian’s primary coloured geometric compositions say much about modern life, writes Alastair Sooke. “Before you start to think about Mondrian’s paintings,” says the Dutch artist’s biographer ...

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 ...

Some years after he had renounced figurative painting for good, Piet Mondrian had a momentary lapse with a startling self-portrait made in 1918. The picture shows the artist standing stiff as a board ...

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 ...