Piet Mondrian counts among the founding members and most important representatives of the Dutch artists' movement "De Stijl", which was launched in 1917. The artistic principles of "De Stijl", which did not only find an almost revolutionary expression in form of painting but also in architecture, saw their highlight in paintings by Piet Mondrian, who, after figurative beginnings in his early period of creation, took a radical turn and reduced his creation to geometrical forms in red, blue, yellow, gray, white and black, which he masterly put onto the canvas in strict grids. In Piet Mondrian's opinion the only way to reach total abstraction was by complying with these principles, which he propagated as the ultimate goal and irrevocable structure in opposition to subjective perception.
Piet Mondrian's innovative paintings are represented in the world's most renowned museums, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art or the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.