During my week back home in London, I also visited the Van Doesburg exhibition at Tate Modern. I wasn't able to spend as much time as I would have liked to there, but was very drawn to his examples of his use of typography and design work, more so than his abstract work.
As The booklet I picked up states, 'Theo van Doesburg was one of the leading figures in the development of geometric abstraction. He was also the founder and chief spokesman of the De Stijl group, and edited the magazine of the same name..This exhibition explores his pivotal role within the international avant-garde not only through his own work- as artsit, designer, writer and editor- but also that of the artists he promoted, collaborated with learned from and influenced'.
De Stijl is a movement founded in 1917 by the painters Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck and Vilmos Huszar with the architect JJP Oud and the poet Anthony Kok. I scanned in the two pages on De Stijl which can be clicked on below and enlarged to read.
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