Composition from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I

1921–1924 · Munkahely

Weimar

1922

Weimar: trying to win over Gropius

In 1922 van Doesburg moves to Weimar, hoping to impress the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius and to spread the influence of De Stijl. Gropius does not think he should become a Bauhaus master, so van Doesburg settles near the Bauhaus buildings and begins to attract students interested in Constructivism, Dadaism and De Stijl.

1924

The break with Mondrian and Elementarism

As they interact more closely, the introvert Mondrian and the flamboyant, extravagant van Doesburg fall out over their characters, and in 1924 a temporary split occurs; the usual reason given is the diagonal — Mondrian never accepted it, van Doesburg insisted on its dynamism — though the art historian Carel Blotkamp points to their different concepts of space and time. After the split van Doesburg launches “Elementarism”, built on diagonal lines, as a rival to Mondrian’s Neo-Plasticism.

1928. november 24.

Married: Nelly van Doesburg

late February 1931

Davos: illness and death from a heart attack

At the end of February 1931, because of his declining health, van Doesburg is forced to move to Davos in Switzerland; he does not recover and dies of a heart attack on 7 March.

1931. március 7.

Died