Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht - 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands.
After having met Mondriaan and van Doesbu...
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Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht - 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands.
After having met Mondriaan and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, his style went completely abstract, like Mondriaan's. But soon he started to disagree with Mondriaan and went back to almost abstract paintings, based on real images. His painting Tryptich is an example, in which he transformed sketches of a mine in Spain into seemingly abstract shapes. When he worked on the St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, he painted De Ruiter (the Rider).
In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, also on the Hoge Veluwe estate. St Hubertus Hunting...
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