Biography
Early life
Theo van Doesburg wwhen natural as Christiaan Emil Marie Küpper around August 30 1883 in Utrecht as the boy of the photographer Wilhelm Küpper and Henrietta Catherina Margadant. Early around his twenties he began using the title of his stepfather Theodorus Doesburg to sign his early paintings. He supported his works by copying paintings from either a Rijksmuseum and writing for magazines.

Founding of 'De Stijl'
It was when reviewing an exposition for one of these magazines, within 1915, that he came within email by having a works of Piet Mondrian, who was eight years older than him, & got so already gained a bit of attention by using his paintings. Van Doesburg saw around these paintings his ideal around painting: the complete abstraction of reality. Before long when a exposition Van Doesburg had around email by using Mondrian, & together by using more similar-minded creative person like Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud they founded the magazine De Stijl in 1917.

Van Doesburg promoting 'De Stijl'
Although 'De Stijl' was processed higher of several members Van Doesburg was a 'ambassador' of the movement, promoting it through Europe. He moved to Weimar in 1922, deciding to make an impression on the Bauhaus principal, Walter Gropius, in order to spread a influence of the movement.

Although Gropius accepted the turn towards constructivism in 1923, he did not sense that Doesburg can get the Bauhaus master. Doesburg so installed himself touching to the Bauhaus buildings & began to attract school students concerned in the newly ideas of constructivism.

The split with Mondrian
A friendly relationship between Van Doesburg & Mondrian remained hard around these years, although their primary way of communication was by letter. Inside 1923 Van Doesburg moved to Paris together with his married woman Nelly van Doesburg. Because them men had to view both extra within a lot more regular basis the differences in character became apparent: Mondrian was introvert, while van Doesburg was supplementary flamboyant & extravagant. When you took 1924 them men got disagreements, which finally lead to the (irregular) split in the equivalent month. a precise understanding of this split hwhen been a point among art historiographer: ordinarily a diverging ideas all about a directions of the lines in the paintings develop been known as as the primary cause: Mondrian never accepted diagonals, whereas Doesburg insisted on the diagonal's dynamic aspects, & indeed featured it within several of his works. All the same, Mondrian accepted a few conception of diagonals, like inside his "Lozenge" paintings, in which a canvas was rotated 45 degrees, when however maintaining horizontal lines. Within recent years, all the same, this theory gained critique from either art historiographer like Carel Blotkamp who cites their different concepts all about space & instance when a independent cause for the split. When the split Van Doesburg launched a fresh conception for his art: Elementarism, which was characterized by the diagonal lines & rivalled sustaining Mondrians Neo-Plasticism.

Within 1929 the two men became reconciled whenever it inadvertently met around the café around Paris.

Activities other than painting
Van Doesburg got more activities apart from either painting & promoting De Stijl: he mass produced efforts inside architecture, designing houses for artists, together by having Georges Vantongerloo and he designed the decoration for the Café Aubette inside Strasbourg. Van Doesburg likewise saved the hyperlink sustaining DADA, publishing the magazine DADA Holland under a false title of I. K. Bonset. He likewise published Dada poetry under the equivalent title inside De Stijl. Together using El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters, Van Doesburg pioneered the efforts to an International of Arts withwithin both congresses held in Düsseldorf and Weimar, in 1922.

Last years
Van Doesburg stayed active within art groups like Cercle et Carré, Art Concret and Abstraction-Création, which he founded in 1931. At a prevent of February 1931 he was forced to move to Davos in Switzerland because of his declining health. Van Doesburg did nin recover: on March 7 1931 he died of a heart attack. When his dying Nelly van Doesburg freed a previous issue of De Stijl as a memorial issue by having contributions by old & freshly members from either De Stijl.

Literature
Baljeu, Joost: Theo van Doesburg (London: Studio View, 1974) Overy, Paul. De Stijl (London: Studio Panorama, 1969) White, Michael: De Stijl & Dutch modernism (Manchester [etc]: Manchester University Click, 2003)

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