VAN DOESBURG, Theo

Van Doesburg was, like his near-contemporary Moholy-Nagy, essentially a Polyartist, excelling at two or more nonadjacent arts—painting, architectural design, criticism, and creative literature. In the first respect, he was famous for rigorously geometric, Constructivist paintings, such as Composition XI (1918) and Counter-Composition XIII (1924), and then for deviating from his fellow Dutchman Piet Mondrian by introducing diagonals into his art. For the second art, consider particularly...