For six years, the most comprehensive biography ever written on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was only available in Dutch. Thanks to a new translation, English-speaking audiences can now learn more ...

Piet Mondrian: A Life, Hans Janssen, Ridinghouse and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 424pp, €40 (pb) The first major biography in English of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a leading member of the ...

Art historian Weber (Anni & Josef Albers) presents a scrupulously detailed biography of pioneering Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). Raised by austere, religious parents, Mondrian ...

The Dancing Dutchman who pioneered abstract art Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography of Piet Mondrian follows the artist’s movements through cities, styles and the steps to the latest jazz Gift this ...

While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of a brainy female Oxford University graduate. Henry Moore, his Belsize Park neighbour, ...

WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...

The Mondrian that emerges from Nicholas Fox Weber’s long, thoroughly researched, and, in the end, heroic book is an odd bird, an unstoppable temperament and, yes, a great painter.

The first major biography in English of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872- 1944), a leading member of the De Stijl movement, is by the late scholar Hans Janssen. The former curator at Kunstmuseum ...