Theo Van Doesburg Events

1883 Aug 30 Christian Emil Marie Küpper (Theo van Doesburg) Born
Theo van Doesburg was born as Christian Emil Marie Küpper on 30 August 1883 in Utrecht as the son of the photographer Wilhelm Küpper and Henrietta Catherina Margadant. After a short train...
1902 Christian emil Marie Küpper Adopts the Name Theo van Doesburg
In 1902, at the age of 19, Christian Emil Marie Küpper first adopted the name of his stepfather and became Theo van Doesburg. Later he toyed with using Küpper as the first of a number of ...
1915 Theo van Doesburg Promotes De Stijl Movement
It was while reviewing an exposition for one of these magazines he wrote for, in 1915 (halfway through his two-year service in the army), that he came in contact with the works of Piet Mo...
1917 De Stijl Movement
After World War I there was a turning away from old forms and philosophies among architects and designers, just as there was among artists and writers. Many of the same abstract ideas cam...
1917 Volume I of De Stijl Journal Published
The De Stijl (literally, "the style") art movement was founded by the painter and architect Theo van Doesburg in Leiden in 1917. It encompassed a new type of style in modern art and archi...
1921 Theo van Doesburg Moves to Weimar
In 1921, armed with such architectural visions (he had been talking of the fourth dimension since 1917), Van Doesburg set off for Weimar, apparently with the intention of mounting an assa...
1923 Theo van Doesburg Writes Brochure on Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, ...
1924 Theo van Doesburg Edits Mécano Magazine
The city of Leiden is where De Stijl was founded and also where van Doesburg established his short-lived art review Mécano in 1924. Here, as editor, he assumed the name I.K.Bonset, which ...
1924 Van Doesburg and Mondrian Split
The friendship between Van Doesburg and Mondrian remained strong in these years, although their primary way of communication was by letter. In 1923 Van Doesburg moved to Paris together wi...
1926 Theo van Doesburg Refurbishes Café Aubette
In 1926 van Doesburg, with artists Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber, obtained the commission to refurbish the interior of a mid-eighteenth-century building to create Café Aubette—large restaur...
1928 Nov 24 Theo Van Doesburg Marries Petronella Johanna van Moorsel
In 1920 Nelly met Van Doesburg through her brother, who had a subscription to the magazine published by Van Doesburg De Stijl. At the opening of the exhibition La Section d'Or in The Hagu...
1931 Mar 7 Theo van Doesburg Dies
Van Doesburg stayed active in art groups such as Cercle et Carré, Art Concret and Abstraction-Création, which he founded in 1931. At the end of February 1931 he was forced to move to Davo...