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Window from a School in Drachten

Artist Theo van Doesburg (Dutch, 1883–1931)
Title Window from a School in Drachten
Date 1920–1922
Medium Stained glass
Dimensions Object: 52 × 15 1/2 × 1 3/8 in. (132.1 × 39.4 × 3.5 cm)
Overall: 57 7/8 × 21 5/8 × 3 1/16 in. (147 × 54.9 × 7.8 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 75.85.1

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In 1915, while serving in World War I, Theo van Doesburg discovered the work of Piet Mondrian, whose paintings were comprised of primary colors, geometric forms, and straight lines. Van Doesburg became an adherent to Mondrian’s aesthetic theories, advancing them through his journal De Stijl, which he founded in 1917. Van Doesburg’s stained glass designs, such as this window designed for a girls‘ school in the Dutch town of Drachten, exemplifies the De Stijl aesthetic. Like the Russian Constructivists, De Stijl artists based their designs on mathematical principles, imbuing their work with an impersonal, but visually harmonious, sensibility.


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