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Housing a unique collection of works by the "Blue Rider" artists, the Lenbachhaus justifies its reputation and fame. This building, in the style of a Tuscan villa, is also home to a significant collection of 19th-century paintings of the Munich school and more recent acquisitions of 20th-century works by famous artists. Illustrated
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) emptied Cubism of its representational content, dissembling its angular contours into a few floating horizontal lines and reconstructing it anew as irregular squares of primary color. Mondrian dubbed the abstract style at which he arrived Neoplasticism, a term that eventually became synonymous with De Stijl, the Dutch avant-garde group composed of artists Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck and Vilmos Huszar and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff and J.J.P. Oud, as well as Mondrian himself. More influential and foundational than any other design ethos of the early twentieth century, De Stijl provided the basis for much of the Bauhaus aesthetic, as w...
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