Dutch artist and central character of the De Stijl movement. His artistic works shows a large degree of purity and single-mindedness, often atributted to his Calvinist upbringing. Starting his career as a symbolist, he later got heavily influenced by the Cubism of Picasso.
Later got involved with theophysics, and this replaced his calvinism. He moved to New York in 1940 were he developed a love for jazz. This stimulated a less ascetic style shown in his Boogie Woogie series, where he has broken his characteristic vertical and horizontal lines up into small squares.