Piet Mondrian
1872 CE–1944 CE · Painter · Amersfoort
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter and art theorist, born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan in Amersfoort in 1872. He trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and worked first in naturalist and Symbolist modes before moving toward abstraction. In Paris he absorbed Cubism, and during the First World War, back in the Netherlands, he helped found the De Stijl movement with Theo van Doesburg. He developed the geometric idiom he called Neoplasticism, restricting his compositions to straight lines, right angles, and primary colors with black, white, and gray. He worked in Paris, then London, and finally New York, where he died in 1944.
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- Jean Sibelius· 1865 CE–1957 CE
- W. B. Yeats· 1865 CE–1939 CE
- Rudyard Kipling· 1865 CE–1936 CE
- H. G. Wells· 1866 CE–1946 CE
- Wassily Kandinsky· 1866 CE–1944 CE
- Frank Lloyd Wright· 1867 CE–1959 CE
- W. E. B. Du Bois· 1868 CE–1963 CE
- Henri Matisse· 1869 CE–1954 CE
- Sergei Rachmaninoff· 1873 CE–1943 CE
- Maurice Ravel· 1875 CE–1937 CE
- Thomas Mann· 1875 CE–1955 CE
- Rainer Maria Rilke· 1875 CE–1926 CE
- Béla Bartók· 1881 CE–1945 CE
- James Joyce· 1882 CE–1941 CE
- Virginia Woolf· 1882 CE–1941 CE
- Khalil Gibran· 1883 CE–1931 CE
- Franz Kafka· 1883 CE–1924 CE
- John Maynard Keynes· 1883 CE–1946 CE
- D. H. Lawrence· 1885 CE–1930 CE
- Fernando Pessoa· 1888 CE–1935 CE
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- Victor Emmanuel III· 1869 CE–1947 CE
- Mahatma Gandhi· 1869 CE–1948 CE
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- Reza Shah Pahlavi· 1878 CE–1944 CE
- Neville Chamberlain· 1869 CE–1940 CE
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- David Lloyd George· 1863 CE–1945 CE
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah· 1876 CE–1948 CE
- Calvin Coolidge· 1872 CE–1933 CE
- Emperor Taisho· 1879 CE–1926 CE
- Franklin D. Roosevelt· 1882 CE–1945 CE
- Ibn Saud (Abdulaziz Al Saud)· 1875 CE–1953 CE
- Joseph Stalin· 1878 CE–1953 CE
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