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De Stijl

De Stijl is a Dutch word that means The Style. It is a Dutch artistic movement started in 1917 and that lasted until 1931. The movement is also known as neoplasticism.

The group's principal members were the Dutch painter, designer, writer and critic Theo van Doesburg, the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszár and Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff and J.J.P Oud.

De Stijl is also the name of an influential Dutch magazine founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg in cooperation with Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud. It became the catalyst for the De Stijl movement. Ninety numbers were published in 8 volumes, the last one in 1932. All have been scanned in. The De Stijl movement lived and died with the magazine.

De Stijl stood for a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order. Its members proposed abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour. For example, they simplified visual compositions by limiting everything to vertical and horizontal directions, even in the typefaces used. They used only primary colors along with black and white.

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