176 reactions · 11 shares | La Prairie embarks on the second year of the Piet Mondrian Conservation Project in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler. Using advanced technology and methods, compelling discoveries have emerged, shining a new light on the artworks created by the master of abstraction. Watch the full episode on now. | La Prairie | Facebook

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944. #Dutch pioneer of #abstract #art #DeStijl, who developed from early landscape pictures to geometric abstract works of a most rigorous kind. Born in Amersfoort, Utrecht. Studied painting at the Amsterdam Academy 1892-4 and again, part-time, 1896-7. Friendship with the painter Simon Mans and painted landscapes in the Hague School tradition. Began to work in a more vividly coloured and sometimes pointillist style in 1908, joined the Theosophic Organisation in 1909 and made