Bart van der Leck

Anthony Bart van der Leck (* November 26, 1876 in Utrecht, † November 14, 1958 in Blaricum ) was a Dutch painter of modern art.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a glass painter, he studied at the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijheid and 1900-1904 Beeldende at the Rijksakademie van kunsten to Amsterdam. His early drawings are impressionistic influences, especially George Breitner and Ismaël. In 1917 he founded together with Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, among others the movement De Stijl and developed in this environment, in interaction with the other artists and more abstract forms. A drastic step was the reduction of the primary colors from 1916. Unlike Mondrian, van but never solved the leak entirely from realism. Van der Leck exerted a decisive influence on the formation of the characteristic structure aesthetics of De Stijl, but broke away to pursue .. Outside the Netherlands, he was up in the 1990s, hardly known, was always in the shadow of Mondrian soon by the group of its own way. Its main collector was ( 1916-1918 ) wife Kröller- Müller.