Piet mondrian brief biography of williams

THE NETHERLANDS 1872 – 1911

Piet Mondrian was born on 7 March 1872 in Amersfoort, a small town not far from Utrecht, half-way between the Nordsee and the German border. The demon of painting bites Mondrian already at the age of fourteen, as he himself will say.

After primary school, the young Mondrian took two diplomas for teaching drawing and perspective in secondary schools and attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts while occasionally exhibiting his first works (still lifes).

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In 1892 Mondrian moved to Amsterdam where he attended the Rijksacademie and became member of an association of painters in Utrecht where he exhibited until 1909. The artist supported himself by making copies, illustrating academic texts and selling some of his work. 

In 1897 he joined the Amsterdam society of St.

Lucas and Arti et Amicitiae, where he exhibited regularly between 1897 and 1910. During these years Mondrian earned a living with portraits and copies of paintings in the Rij piet mondrian brief biography of williams1 QIVAR