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Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) is considered a pioneer of abstract painting. His pared-down compositions of red, yellow, blue and white colour fields framed by black lines made him famous. Born and raised near Utrecht, Mondrian moved to Amsterdam to study painting. He subsequently lived and worked in Paris, London and finally New York. After starting out as a landscape painter, Mondrian passed through several phases in his artistic development, before finally arriving at his abstract pictorial compositions. The Fondation Beyeler owns seven important works by the Dutch artist that illustrate his evolution from figuration to abstraction with particular clarity.

ANSICHTEN is aimed at art lovers and teachers looking to engage in greater depth with the works of the Fondation Beyeler.

The journal also features a practical section, which presents ideas, tasks and experiments that may be carried out at the museum, at school or at home.

ANSICHTEN playfully provides readers with thorough knowledge of the works of the Beyeler Collection.