Piet Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian was born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. in Amersfoort the Netherlands, March 7, 1872. From 1892 to 1897 he studied art the Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Up until 1908, his paintings reflected the conventional Dutch landscapes. In 1909 he recognized the avant-garde art movements of the time, such as Dutch Impressionism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and thus withdrew from the mere imitation of nature. In 1909 he decided to join the Theosophical Society, and turned to an inward spiritual world …

…Valentine Dudensing Gallery. He died February 1, 1944 in New York City His works influenced a younger generation of artists and also some American hard-edge abstractionists in the 1950s and 1960s. A great number of his works are preserved in the Gemeente Museum in The Hague. SOURCES: Irwin, David. "Mondrian, Piet" 2002 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. New York City: Grolier Interactive, Inc., 2001. CD-ROM. Piet Mondrian Biography. Guggenheim Museum. 12 May 2003 <http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_112.html>.