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.

Piet Mondrian, the groundbreaking Dutch Modernist, is having a moment this fall. A new biography, Piet Mondrian: A Life, was released to rave reviews last month, and a retrospective marking the 150th ...

This new, deeply researched biography from a respected art historian traces the iconoclastic painter Piet Mondrian from his strict Calvinist upbringing in the rural Netherlands of the late 1800s to ...

They are among the very most famous artworks left to us by the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian’s geometric canvases, white backgrounds overlaid with spare, uneven black lines, set off by a few ...

Art historian Weber (Anni & Josef Albers) presents a scrupulously detailed biography of pioneering Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). Raised by austere, religious parents, Mondrian ...

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 ...

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 ...