Theo van Doesburg | Modernist Architecture

Theo van Doesburg’s “Stuttgart Weißenhof 1927, Die Wohnung: ‘The Dwelling,’ the Famous Werkbund Exhibition” (1927)

• September 13, 2011 • 5 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, functionalism, modernism
Tags: Adolf Loos, Cubism, functionalism, Hans Scharoun, J.J.P. Oud, Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Weissenhof

Hans Richter’s “Toward Constructivism” (1924)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: art movements, Constructivism, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, internationalism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

• October 23, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, Henryk Berlewi, international congress, international constructivism, Lissitzky, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Purism, Suprematism, Tatlin, Theo van Doesburg, translation

De Stijl, “A Short Review of the Proceedings [of the Congress of International Progressive Artists], Followed by the Statements Made by the Artists’ Groups” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architecture, art, Constructivism, De Stijl, El Lissitzky, Expressionism, Gegenstand, Hans Richter, Ilia Ehrenburg, Ilya Ehrenburg, internationalism, Marcel Janco, Novembergruppe, Objet, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Veshch, Viking Eggeling

Henryk Berlewi’s “The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf” (1922)

• October 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Constructivism, De Stijl, Dusseldorf, Henryk Berlewi, International Exhibition, internationalism, Kazimir Malevich, modern art, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Vladimir Tatlin

Walter Dexel’s “Theo van Doesburg” (1931)

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, memorial, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Walter Dexel

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

• October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, Bauhaus, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: Bauhaus, Constructivism, De Stijl, Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Malevich, Mies van Der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Hans Arp’s, and Ivan Puni’s “A Call for an Elementarist Art” (1921)

• October 20, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in art, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: A Call for Elementarist Art, De Stijl, Elementarism, Hans Arp, Ivan Puni, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, manifesto, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Elemental Formation” (1923)

• October 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, avant-garde, Elementarism, G, internationalism, modernism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg, “The Capital vs. the Countryside: OSA’s Propaganda for a Modern Community Architecture” (1929)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architecture, De Stijl, modernism, Russian avant-garde
Tags: architectural criticism, architectural theory, modern architecture, Moisei Ginzburg, OSA, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg, translation, Vesnin

Theo van Doesburg’s “Abstraction, Dream, and Utopia: Conflicting Movements in Russian Architecture” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural criticism, avant-garde architecture, De Stijl, international modernism, international style, modernism, Russian avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg

“Architecture and Revolution — Revolutionary Architecture? Utopian designs by Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Others” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg’s “elementarism” (1930)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, art theory, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, Elementarism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Notes on L’Aubette at Strasbourg” (1928)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architectural theory, architecture, De Stijl, Francois Blondel, history, notes, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg “De Stijl, Jubilee Number” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in architecture, art, De Stijl, modernism
Tags: architecture, art, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, reflection, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg “Painting and Sculpture: Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)” (1927)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, art, Dutch Modernism. De Stijl, Elementarism, Neoplasticism, painting, Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg’s “Painting: From Composition to Counter-Composition” (1925)

• October 19, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art, counter-composition, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Towards a Plastic Architecture” (1924)

• October 19, 2010 • 4 Comments

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, modernism, plastic, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Against Imitative Artists”

• October 18, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: art, artistic theory, Dutch modernism, imitation, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “On looking at New Painting” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: abstract art, aesthetics, Dutch modernism, painting, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Theo van Doesburg’s “Thought — Perception — Plasticism” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Theo van Doesburg “Notes on Monumental Art with Reference to Two Fragments of a Building (Hall in Holiday Center at Noordwijkerhout)” (1918)

• October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: architecture, De Stijl, Dutch modernism, monumental art, Neo-Plasticism, Theo van Doesburg, translation

Modernist Architecture

Theo van Doesburg’s “Stuttgart Weißenhof 1927, Die Wohnung: ‘The Dwelling,’ the Famous Werkbund Exhibition” (1927)

Hans Richter’s “Toward Constructivism” (1924)

Henryk Berlewi’s “The Arts Abroad” (1922-23)

De Stijl, “A Short Review of the Proceedings [of the Congress of International Progressive Artists], Followed by the Statements Made by the Artists’ Groups” (1922)

Henryk Berlewi’s “The International Exhibition in Düsseldorf” (1922)

Walter Dexel’s “Theo van Doesburg” (1931)

Karel Teige’s “Ten Years of the Bauhaus” (1929-1930)

Theo van Doesburg’s, László Moholy-Nagy’s, Hans Arp’s, and Ivan Puni’s “A Call for an Elementarist Art” (1921)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Elemental Formation” (1923)

Theo van Doesburg, “The Capital vs. the Countryside: OSA’s Propaganda for a Modern Community Architecture” (1929)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Abstraction, Dream, and Utopia: Conflicting Movements in Russian Architecture” (1928)

“Architecture and Revolution — Revolutionary Architecture? Utopian designs by Tatlin, Lissitzky, and Others” (1928)

Theo van Doesburg’s “elementarism” (1930)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Notes on L’Aubette at Strasbourg” (1928)

Theo van Doesburg “De Stijl, Jubilee Number” (1927)

Theo van Doesburg “Painting and Sculpture: Elementarism (Fragment of a Manifesto)” (1927)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Painting: From Composition to Counter-Composition” (1925)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Towards a Plastic Architecture” (1924)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Against Imitative Artists”

Theo van Doesburg’s “On looking at New Painting” (1918)

Theo van Doesburg’s “Thought — Perception — Plasticism” (1918)

Theo van Doesburg “Notes on Monumental Art with Reference to Two Fragments of a Building (Hall in Holiday Center at Noordwijkerhout)” (1918)

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