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Theo van Doesburg.... Leiden and "De Stijl"  ntil April 1921 Theo van Doesburg lived at several addresses in Leiden and he had a studio at Kort Galgewater 3. "De Stijl" can still be found in the pavement in front of this building, in the painting of "Two squares" by Lissitsky on a factory, poem by Van Doesburg on the wall of a house in the city and his paintings in the Municipal Museum De Lakenhal.Toward the end of 1916 he founded the society for artists "The Sphinx", together with several colleagues. In january 1917 they held their first exhibition at "De Harmonie" in the Breestraat in Leiden. Some time later Van Doesburg founded "De Stijl" and withdrew from "The Sphinx". The main operators in "De Stijl" were J.J.P. Oud, Mondriaan, Van der Leck , Anthoni Kok, Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils, VanTongerloo and Rietveld. In spite of diverging disciplines and opinions everyone could agree on the artistic basis which Van Doesburg had formulated, otherwise the magazine "De Stijl" had never come to life. "De Stijl" as a movement would be the focal point of extensive innovations in painting, architecture, applied art and graphic design until the death of Van Doesburg. Up to the last issue the magazine was printed by a printer at the Aalmarkt in Leiden, still housed there. |
 
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