Composition with Red Blue and Yellow working relationship, they were contacted by Theo van Doesburg, a painter who frequently wrote about art for different periodicals and whom is considered the propagandist of the De Stijl movement. He invited Mondrian and van der Leck to join his initiative to start an artistic review periodical. They agreed and the result of this was the journal entitled De Stijl. Together they formed an artistic collective that consisted not only of painters but also architects; the movement was confined to strictly Dutch areas due to war. These artists cannot be considered the same. For example, not all De Stijl artists
Theo van Reijn Theo van Reijn Theo van Reijn (Breda, May 28, 1884 - Haarlem, August 6, 1954) was a Dutch sculptor. Van Reijn attended classes in 1905 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, where Bart van Hove was one of the teachers. In 1911 he won the Dutch Prix de Rome and spent a year in Rome, and in 1914 worked in Paris. Back in The Netherlands he settled in Haarlem, where he worked until 1954. One of his pupils in Haarlem was Joop Beljon. In 1948 van Reijn wrote a book about the foremost Dutch contemporary sculptures, which was