What nationality was painter Piet Mondrian?
Piet Mondrian abstract geometrist". Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (; , later ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics.
Piet Mondrian found the only known movie footage with Mondrian. The discovery of the film footage was announced at the end of a two-year research program on the "Victory Boogie Woogie". The research found that the painting was in very good condition and that Mondrian painted the composition in one session. It also was found that the composition was changed radically by Mondrian shortly before his death by using small pieces of colored tape. When the 47-year-old Piet Mondrian left the Netherlands for unfettered Paris for the second and last time in 1919, he set about at once to make his studio