Serialism closely related to certain works from the de Stijl and Bauhaus movements in design and architecture called "serial art" by some writers (; ; ; ), specifically the paintings of Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Bart van Leck, Georg van Tongerloo, Richard Paul Lohse, and Burgoyne Diller, who had been seeking to “avoid repetition and symmetry on all structural levels and working with a limited number of elements” . Stockhausen described the final synthesis in this manner: So serial thinking is something that's come into our consciousness and will be there forever: it's relativity and nothing else. It just says:
Theo van de Klundert and History of Economics at Tilburg University. Among his doctoral students are Casper van Ewijk, Henk van Gemert, George Gelauff, Ad van de Gevel, Raymond Gradus (in cooperation with Piet Verheijen), Rob de Groof, Gustaaf Hes, Lex Meijdam, Richard Nahuis, Henk Peer, Eric Schaling (in cooperation with Sylvester Eijffinger), Sjak Smulders, Ton van Schaik, Herman Thoben and Jeroen van de Ven, Herman Wijffels. In 2001, Van de Klundert retired from Tilburg University. Since 1967, Van de Klundert has been associated with the scientific journal "De Economist", initially as editor, later on as chairman of the board of editors. Since 1976