Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter born in 1872 who painted in the Netherlands and Paris and later also shortly in London and in New York.
He launched his art career in the Netherlands holding exhibitions of his art there. In 1911 or 1912 he moved to Paris which was very popular with artists at the time. During world war 1 he was back in the Netherlands. He had visited his sick father and couldn't return to Paris until the war was over. During this time he and Theo van Doesburg founded the influencial De Stijl magazine . In the period after back Paris he then painted his most well known pictures. Shortly before the second world war he shortly moved to London and then immigrated to New York in 1940 where he died in 1944.
His art was abstract often consisting of simple lines and other simple geometric figures still his paintings are full of life, especially his Broadway Boogie-Woogie radiate a lot of energy.
He is still well known today and his paintings can still be seen in exhibitions worldwide.
