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| Germany | 19 |
| USA | 7 |
| Netherlands | 6 |
| Switzerland | 5 |
| France | 4 |
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Centraal Museum, Netherlands |
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Biography: 
1891 Born in Utrecht (NL)
Christian Emil Marie Küpper, who adopted the pseudonym Theo van Doesburg, was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on August 30, 1883. His first exhibition of paintings was held in 1908 in the Hague. In the early 1910s he wrote poetry and established himself as an art critic. From 1914 to 1916 van Doesburg served in the Dutch army, after which time he settled in Leiden and began his collaboration with the architects J. J. P. Oud and Jan Wils. In 1917 they founded the group De Stijl [more] and the periodical of the same name; other original members were Vilmos Huszár, Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo. Van Doesburg executed decorations for Oud’s De Vonk project in Noordwijkerhout in 1917.
In 1920 he resumed his writing, using the pen name I. K. Bonset and later Aldo Camini. Van Doesburg visited Berlin and Weimar in 1921 and the following year taught at the Weimar Bauhaus [more], where he associated with Raoul Hausmann, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Hans Richter. He was interested in Dada [more] at this time and worked with Kurt Schwitters as well as Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, and others on the review Mécano in 1922. Exhibitions of the architectural designs of Gerrit Rietveld, van Doesburg, and Cor van Eesteren were held in Paris in 1923 at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie l’Effort Moderne and in 1924 at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture.
1931 Died in Davos, Graubünden (CH)
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Public exhibitions 49
until 11.4.2010
Solo shows 3
2000
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| theo van doesburg: maler-architekt - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Theo van Doesburg - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
1970
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| Theo Van Doesburg: The Development of an Architect - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 45
2008
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| XXth Century - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Aufbruch der Moderne - Zentren konstruktivistischer Gestaltung im Deutschland der 20er Jahre - Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt |
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| Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten - , Berlin |
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| Rietvelds Ranke Ruimtedieren en andere creaturen van de avant-garde - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Genau + anders - Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Collections, Permanent/Provisoire 2 - Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing |
2007
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| The Golden Age - Highlights Of Dutch Graphic Design 1890 -1990 - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia |
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| Die Erneuerung des Sehens - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Modernism - Designing a New World 1914-1939 - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Ausgerechnet… Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst - Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg |
2006
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| [Grid < > Matrix] - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Fest der Farbe; Die Sammlung Merzbacher-Mayer - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Exil und Moderne – H.W. Janson und die Sammlung der Washington University in St. Louis - Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg |
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| International New Building 1927-2002 - Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje |
2005
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| Eröffnungsausstellung - SQUARE - Die Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter - Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch |
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| In neuer Frische - Neupräsentation der Sammlung - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen |
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| Exil und Moderne - Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, Lübeck |
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| Avant Garde Graphics - 1918-34 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Totally Geometric - Abstraction from the permanent Collection - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| EXIL UND MODERNE - Meisterwerke der klassischen Avantgarde aus der Sammlung der Washington University, St. Louis - Angermuseum Erfurt, Erfurt |
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| Van Doesburg - Van Dam - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
2004
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| Exil und Moderne – H.W. Janson und die Sammlung der Washington University in St. Louis - Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim |
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| Archiskulptur - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Rietvelds Universum - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| 25 Jahre Wilhelm-Hack-Museum - 25 Jahre Sammeln - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen |
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| Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
2002
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| La Culture Pour Vivre - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2001
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| Light and Movement of the Century Abstract Art - Gallery Hyundai, Seoul |
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| Ornament und Abstraktion - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
2000
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| Art concret - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
1999
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| Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Coll - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City, NY |
1998
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| A Choice from the Collection - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
1991
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| Vision of Space - - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2006) |
1989
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| 60 Meisterwerke aus der Solomon R. Gugenheim Foundation - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1986
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| Pioneers of Abstract Art from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection - - Galerie Gmurzynska - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2006) |
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| Point, ligne, plan - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1965
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| French Abstract Tapestry - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1955
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| documenta 1 - Documenta, Kassel |
1953
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| 5th Anniversary Exhibition - - Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
Public collections 23
France
| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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Germany
| | Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
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Italy
| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Mexico
| | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
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Netherlands
| | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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| | Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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| | Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
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| | Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
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Poland
| | Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz, Lodz
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Spain
| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Switzerland
| | Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
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| | Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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