Bart van der Leck
Illustration — Van der Leck in 1956 • Illustration — Metz & Co. Showroom with wall hangings (left and rear walls) and carpet by Bart van der Leck, and furniture by Gerrit Rietveld Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876 – 13 November 1958) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist.
Also recorded as Bart Van der Leck · Bart Antony van der Leck · Bart van Der Leck · Bart Anthonij van der Leck
Bart van der Leck

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- Born
- Bart van der Leck was born on 26 November 1876.
- Died
- Bart van der Leck died on 13 November 1958.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- painter, designer, graphic artist, ceramicist, textile artist, exlibrist, illustrator, collagist and draftsperson.
- Fields
- abstract art.
- Known for
- Composition.
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Illustration — Van der Leck in 1956 • Illustration — Metz & Co. Showroom with wall hangings (left and rear walls) and carpet by Bart van der Leck, and furniture by Gerrit Rietveld Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876 – 13 November 1958) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist.
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Biography
Biography
Van der Leck was born on 26 November 1876, in Utrecht. Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht. An example of his later stained glass work is in the Kröller-Müller Museum. After having met Mondrian and van Doesburg and having founded the Stijl movement with them, his style became completely abstract, as did Mondrian's. But after disagreements with Mondrian his abstract style became based on representational images. His painting Triptych is an example, in which he transformed sketches of a mine in Spain into seemingly abstract shapes. In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, in the Hoge Veluwe estate. The hunting lodge was designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage. In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz & Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising. For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear, geometrically constructed alphabet. In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant garde magazine Flax. Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that face by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994. Bart van der Leck claimed to be the father of the avant-garde movement. In his own words he said: "Mondrian came to my place one day with Doesburg, whom I had never seen before. When Doesburg noticed an abstract painting right on the easel, he exclaimed: 'If that is to be the painting of the future, may I be hanged right now!' Well, a few months later, he was painting in precisely that manner. That's the sort of person Doesburg was. No ideas of his own. And a cheat in bargain...." Van der Leck died on 13 November 1958, in Blaricum.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Bart Van der Leck, Bart Antony van der Leck, Bart van Der Leck, Bart Anthonij van der Leck and Bart Anthony van der Leck. His recorded language was Dutch.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Bart van der Leck worked in ceramic art, product design, stained glass design and graphic design. His work is associated with abstract art. He belonged to De Stijl. He worked at Amsterdam, Utrecht, Blaricum and Amersfoort.
Identity
Identity
Bart van der Leck is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of the Netherlands. Recorded with the occupation textile artist. Classed in the genre abstract art.

Composition de Bart van der Leck
Esther Westerveld
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1876
Bart van der Leck was born on 26 November 1876.
1958
Bart van der Leck died on 13 November 1958.
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Bart van der Leck was born at Utrecht.
Birthplace
Bart van der Leck died at Blaricum.
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Public collections
Public collections
Among the public collections holding works by the artist are: • Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands • Kröller-Müller Museum
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q174655: Bart van der Leck
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- “Bart van der Leck”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 2144179-0, Ausstellung Bart van der Leck - Maler der Moderne (1994-1995 : Wolfsburg).
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Literature
Literature
Literature
Bart Van Der Leck, The Artists of De Stijl, 2000
Scholarly footprint
Literature
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- 1.Met het rode paard komt de fantasie, museumtijdschrift nr. 7, okt/nov 2017, betreft tentoonstelling De Mecenas en de Verversbaas, Otterlo, Kröller-Müller museum, oktober 2017 - april 2018
- 2.het mijnbedrijf
- 3.affiche Batavier lijn
- 4.Havenarbeid
- 5.Destorm
- 6.Lieske Tibbe, Een revolutie gaat aan gekijf ten onder: De Stijl en de ‘Russische kwestie’, najaar 1919, 2006.
- 7.Theo van Doesburg, 'Aantekeningen bij bijlage XII. De zaag en den goudvischkom van P. Alma', De Stijl, 1e jaargang, nr. 8 (juni 1918): p. 91-94. Zie Digital Dada Library.
- 8.Zie Digitale Catalogus Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. (actuele versie hier)
- 9.Zie hoogtepunten Centraal Museum.
- 10.Zie vaste collectie Kröller-Müller Museum.
- 11.Zie: Moeder met kind
- 12.Zie externe link.
- 13.Zie Digital Dada Library.
- 14.Zie MoMA Online Collection.
- 15.Zie vaste collectie Kröller-Müller Museum.
- 16.Zie vaste collectie Kröller-Müller Museum. (gearchiveerd)
- 17.Zie Digital Dada Library.
- 18.Zie vaste collectie Kröller-Müller Museum.
- 19.Zie externe link.
- 20.Zie Tate online.
- 21.Zie vaste collectie Kröller-Müller Museum.
- 22.Zie externe link.
- 23.Zie Architectuurtijdschriften TU Delft.
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authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 2144179-0, Ausstellung Bart van der Leck - Maler der Moderne (1994-1995 : Wolfsburg).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q174655: Bart van der LeckWikimedia Foundation
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