lived 1872 to 1944

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Piet Mondrian

is probably best known for paintings composed of red, yellow, blue, black, and grey rectangles.

left Paris for London in 1938 and moved to New York in 1940

has work in MOMA

influenced the Bauhaus

Spent WWI in Holland as a founder of De Stijl group's art journal

returned to Paris in 1919 and soon began making his grid paintings

moved to Paris in 1912

was informed by Picasso and Braque's Cubist style

sought to bring rhythm and harmony together in abstract, geometric paintings

was a modernist painter

is a historically important abstract painter