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 ...

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 ...

The abstract paintings of the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) are so recognisable and copied that their art-historical significance can almost be overlooked. But a new exhibition, Mondrian ...

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 correspondent for De Telegraaf, Amsterdam’s most widely read daily newspaper, anticipated that the studio of his country’s best-known living painter would be a cross between a laboratory and a ...

Piet Mondrian in his studio in Amsterdam, Spring 1906. (image courtesy RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History) Two of the great European modernist painters, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...

Piet Mondrian's reputation for being the austere saint of abstract art is challenged by an exhibition that shows a wildly different side Alastair Sooke has been covering art for The Telegraph since ...

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 ...