Where can you see Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam?

At the Stedelijk Museum: Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Gray, Tableau No. 3, Composition in Oval and Windmill. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Piet Mondrian's most famous work in Amsterdam?

Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Gray, of 1920, at the Stedelijk Museum. One of the first of his compositions of black lines and planes of colour, the greys still softening the grid.

When and where was Piet Mondrian born?

On 7 March 1872, at Amersfoort, Netherlands. Piet Mondrian died on 1 February 1944, at New York, United States, aged about 72.

What is Piet Mondrian known for?

Co-founded De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg. Called his style of lines and primary colours Neoplasticism. Died in New York, where he painted Broadway Boogie Woogie. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter, of De Stijl.

Painter, 1872 to 1944

Piet Mondrian

Mondrian began painting Dutch landscapes, mills and trees in the evening light. Step by step he took away everything but the essentials, until only straight black lines and a few planes of primary colour were left. The Stedelijk has every stage of the journey.

Born: 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Died: 1944, New York, United States
Movement: De Stijl
In Amsterdam: 3 works in 1 museum

Where to see Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Stedelijk Museum3 works

Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Gray
1920
One of the first of his compositions of black lines and planes of colour, the greys still softening the grid.
Tableau No. 3, Composition in Oval
1913
An oval of short black lines and pale ochre, pink and blue, from his first years in Paris, when a tree or a building front became a grid.
Windmill
about 1917
A red mill against the sky, one of the Dutch subjects he kept returning to on his way towards abstraction.

The life of Piet Mondrian

Mondrian trained in Amsterdam and painted the polders and rivers round the city. In Paris from 1912 he met Cubism, and his trees and church fronts broke up into grids of short lines.

Back in the Netherlands during the First World War he founded the movement De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg, and arrived at what he called Neoplasticism: black lines, white ground and primary colours. He lived in Paris, then London, and from 1940 in New York, where he died in 1944.

What to know

Co-founded De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg
Called his style of lines and primary colours Neoplasticism
Died in New York, where he painted Broadway Boogie Woogie

Born: 7 March 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Died: 1 February 1944, New York, United States

Piet Mondrian: common questions

Where can you see Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam?: At the Stedelijk Museum: Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Gray, Tableau No. 3, Composition in Oval and Windmill. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Piet Mondrian's most famous work in Amsterdam?: Composition with Yellow, Red, Black, Blue and Gray, of 1920, at the Stedelijk Museum. One of the first of his compositions of black lines and planes of colour, the greys still softening the grid.
When and where was Piet Mondrian born?: On 7 March 1872, at Amersfoort, Netherlands. Piet Mondrian died on 1 February 1944, at New York, United States, aged about 72.
What is Piet Mondrian known for?: Co-founded De Stijl with Theo van Doesburg. Called his style of lines and primary colours Neoplasticism. Died in New York, where he painted Broadway Boogie Woogie. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter, of De Stijl.