De Stijl: The Formative Years : 1917-1922

These nine essays provide a biographically vivid and pluralist view of the periodical De Stijl in the important early period of its development. They provide, new biographical information and fresh analysis of the painters van Doesburg, Mondrian, Vilmos Huszar, and Bart van der Leck, the painter-sculptor Georges Vantonger-loo, architects Oud, Robert van't Hoff, Jan Wits, and furniture designer turned architect Gerrit Rietveld

Caret Blotkamp is Professor of Art History at the Free University of Amsterdam.