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Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944

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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpi:tər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also US: , Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piet Mondrian has received more than 4,292,360 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 68 in 2019). Piet Mondrian is the 27th most popular painter (up from 31st in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Painter.

Piet Mondrian is most famous for his use of geometric shapes and primary colors in his paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Piet Mondrian ranks 27 out of 1,421. Before him are Donatello, Gustav Klimt, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, and Wassily Kandinsky. After him are El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Edgar Degas, Jacques-Louis David, Jan van Eyck, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Piet Mondrian ranks 2. Before him is Roald Amundsen. After him are Bertrand Russell, Alexandra Kollontai, Alexandra Feodorovna, Calvin Coolidge, Johan Huizinga, Haakon VII of Norway, Paul Langevin, Léon Blum, Emil Hácha, and Marcel Mauss. Among people deceased in 1944, Piet Mondrian ranks 5. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Erwin Rommel, and Wassily Kandinsky. After him are Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Richard Sorge, and Günther von Kluge.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Piet Mondrian ranks 7 out of 1,427. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Erasmus (1466), Baruch Spinoza (1632), and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525). After him are Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Johan Cruyff (1947), Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hugo Grotius (1583), and Mata Hari (1876).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Piet Mondrian ranks 5. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525). After him are Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Jan Steen (1626), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Han van Meegeren (1889), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), and Theo van Gogh (1857).

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