Bart van der Leck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bart van der Leck

Dutch painter, designer and ceramist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1876

Place of Birth: Utrecht, Netherlands

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1958

Profession: painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Bart van der Leck

  • Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht – 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist.
  • With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht.
  • An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. After having met Mondrian and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, his style became completely abstract, as did Mondrian's.
  • But after disagreements with Mondrian his abstract style became based on representational images.
  • His painting Tryptich is an example, in which he transformed sketches of a mine in Spain into seemingly abstract shapes. In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, in the Hoge Veluwe estate.
  • The hunting lodge was designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
  • In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz & Co.
  • to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising.
  • For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear, geometrically constructed alphabet.
  • In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant garde magazine Flax.
  • Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that face by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994. Bart van der Leck claimed to be the father of the avant-garde movement.
  • In his own words he said: "Mondrian came to my place one day with Doesburg, whom I had never seen before.
  • When Doesburg noticed an abstract painting right on the easel, he exlaimed: 'If that is to be the painting of the future, may I be hanged right now!' Well, a few months later, he was painting in precisely that manner.
  • That's the sort of person Doesburg was.
  • No ideas of his own.
  • And a cheat in bargain..."

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