Mondriaan, een betere wereld

Mondrian, een betere wereld is a portrait of world-renowned artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), delineated to the last eleven years of his life that led him from Paris to London and his intended final goal New York, fleeing the rising tide of Nazism in Europe. Everyone knows Piet Mondrian, the painter who divided the world into red, white, blue and yellow planes between tight black lines. But who knows that he was a great lover of music, who danced to his heart's delight and saw it as his duty as an artist to strive for balance and harmony in the arts, as a blueprint for a better world? Until his dying day, Mondrian searched for a way to bring light to the increasing darkness in the world, and he should be commended for that to this day.

This graphic novel ends with an extended essay “Aux hommes futurs - Mondrian's vision of art and a better world” by Wietse Coppes, curator at the RKD.