November 5 – Dutch moderns

Thursday November 5 we start at 9.30 again. We talk about De Stijl and the beginnings of Dutch modernism, with examples of Gerrit Rietveld, J.J.P. Oud, Jan Wils, Theo van Doesburg and Brinkman & Van der Vlugt.

Read to prepare: chapter 9 of Curtis, ‘Cubism, De Stijl and new conceptions of space’.

Theo van Doesburg with Sophie and Hans Arp, The Aubette, Strassbourg, 1928