Marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Fondation Beyeler will devote an exhibition to the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. As one of the most important artists of the avant-garde movement, Mondrian shaped the evolution of painting from figuration to abstraction. His early work was influenced not only by late 19th-century Dutch landscape painting but also by Symbolism and Cubism. It was only in the early 1920s that he began concentrating on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary consisting solely of rectilinear arrangements of black lines on a white background and the three primary colours blue, red and yellow.
While the collection of the Fondation Beyeler focuses primarily on works from the later phases of Mondrian’s career, the exhibition will look at his development as an artist up to the 1920s and the stylistic genesis of his later work. Separate sections will deal with motifs such as windmills, dunes and seascapes, the farmstead reflected in water and plants in various states of abstraction.
“Mondrian” is organised jointly by the Fondation Beyeler and K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldor
PIET MONDRIAN WOODS NEAR OELE (BOSCH: BOS BIJ OELE), 1908
Oil on canvas, 128 x 158 cm
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, S. B. Slijper Bequest
© 2021 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
PIET MONDRIAN, EUKALYPTUS, 1912
Oil on canvas, 60,0 x 51,0 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
PIET MONDRIAN, COMPOSITION NO. XVI (COMPOSITIE I, ARBRES), 1912–1913
Oil on canvas, 85,5 x 75,0 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection
© Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
PIET MONDRIAN, COMPOSITION NO. VI (COMPOSITION 9, BLUE FAÇADE), 1914
Oil on canvas, 95,5 x 68,0 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection
© Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
PIET MONDRIAN, TABLEAU NO. I, 1921–1925
Oil on canvas, 75,5 x 65,5 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel8,1 MB
PIET MONDRIAN, COMPOSITION WITH YELLOW AND BLUE, 1932
Oil on canvas, 55,5 x 55,5 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection; acquired with a contribution by
Hartmann P. und Cécile Koechlin-Tanner, Riehen © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
PIET MONDRIAN, COMPOSITION WITH DOUBLE LINE AND BLUE, 1935
Oil on canvas, 72,5 x 70,0 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
PIET MONDRIAN, LOZENGE COMPOSITION WITH EIGHT LINES AND RED (PICTURE NO. III), 1938
Oil on canvas, 100,5 x 100,5 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Beyeler Collection © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust
c/o HCR International Warrenton, VA USA
Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel