Piet Mondrian: Depiction to Picture Mondrian's Neoplastic paintings are unmistakable icons of classical modernism, even if you have no knowledge of the artist as a person, or of his work, the sight of his black and white rectangular compositions filled with the primary colours red, yellow and blue is nevertheless imprinted on our aesthetic consciousness - in a way that goes far beyond art. Yet this abstract imagery was the outcome of a complex development that is far less known to the general public, and that came about under the influence of a diverse medley of artistic approaches at the turn of the 20th century. The exhibition in Cologne will follow Mondrian's progress from his early work in the Impressionist and Cubist styles, to the founding of De Stijl in 1917 (together with Theo van Doesburg), to his renowned Neoplasticism. The exhibition, the world's largest and foremost Mondrian collections, will be coming to Cologne from the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Museum Ludwig, which is home to the world's third-largest Picasso collection, will return the favour and send its celebrated collection to the Gemeentemuseum, so that a large survey exhibition of Pablo Picasso's works can be mounted at the same time in The Hague.

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