Bart van der Leck
- Introduction
- Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht – 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. After having met Mondrian and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, his style became completely abstract, as did Mondrian's. But after disagreements with Mondrian his abstract style became based on representational images. His painting Triptych is an example, in which he transformed sketches of a mine in Spain into seemingly abstract shapes. In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, in the Hoge Veluwe estate. The hunting lodge was designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage. In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz & Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising. For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear, geometrically constructed alphabet. In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant garde magazine Flax. Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that face by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994. Bart van der Leck claimed to be the father of the avant-garde movement. In his own words he said: "Mondrian came to my place one day with Doesburg, whom I had never seen before. When Doesburg noticed an abstract painting right on the easel, he exclaimed: 'If that is to be the painting of the future, may I be hanged right now!' Well, a few months later, he was painting in precisely that manner. That's the sort of person Doesburg was. No ideas of his own. And a cheat in bargain..."
- Wikidata
- Q174655
- Introduction
- Student of A.J. der Kinderen and August Allebé at the Academy of Amsterdam. Dutch painter.
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Designer, Lithographer, Interior Designer, Painter
- Names
- Bart Antony van der Leck, Bart van der Leck, Bart Anthony van der Leck, Barth Anthony van der Leck, Bart Anthonij van der Leck, Bart van Der Leck, Bart Van der Leck, Bart Antony Van Der Leck
- Ulan
- 500030887
Exhibitions
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Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
Dec 13, 2020–Apr 10, 2021
MoMA
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925
Dec 23, 2012–Apr 15, 2013
MoMA
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Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two
May 10–Oct 2, 2006
MoMA
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European Drawing Between the Wars
Oct 24, 1987–Mar 1, 1988
MoMA
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Bart van der Leck has
13 exhibitionsonline.
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Bart van der Leck Untitled 1917
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Bart van der Leck Study (1916-17)
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Preliminary design for poster for Delft Salad Oil (Delftsche Slaolie) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Maquette for the poster for van der Leck Exhibition (Tentoonstelling v.d. Leck) 1919
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Bart van der Leck Poster for van der Leck Exhibition (Tentoonstelling v.d. Leck), Voor de Kunst, Utrecht 1919
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Bart van der Leck Batavier-Line, Rotterdam-London c. 1916
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Bart van der Leck Abstract Composition 1927
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Bart van der Leck Double Faced Rug 1929–1935
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Bart van der Leck Carpet 1929–1935
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