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29/06/2016

Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld ,(24
June 1888 25 June 1964
born in Utrecht, Netherlands)
was a Dutch furniture designer
and architect. One of the
principal members of the
Dutch artistic movement
called De Stijl, Rietveld is
famous for his Red and Blue
Chair and for the Rietveld
Schrder House, which is a
UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Achievements
In 1911-12 Gerrit Rietveld was a member of the group of artists known as Kunstliefde,
with whom he also showed work.
In 1917 Gerrit Rietveld established a furniture workshop in Utrecht
By 1919, however, Gerrit Rietveld had joined Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, and
other artists to found "De Stijl"; Rietveld would become one of the most important and
influential artists in that celebrated group.
In 1919 Gerrit Rietveld designed the prototype of his famous "Red and Blue" chair.
In 1924-25 Gerrit Rietveld designed the "Schrder House" for Truus Schrder in Utrecht, a
building that would become the architectural manifesto of the De Stijl movement.
Between 1932 and 1934, Gerrit Rietveld designed the "Zig-Zag" chair, which consists in
four simple boards fitted together at oblique angles.

Most popular furniture and architectural

Designer: Gerrit Rietveld

Date:
1918
Materials : Lacquered wood

Architect:Gerrit Rietveld
Region: Europe and North America

Hoge Stoel (High Chair), 1919

G vd Groenekan
GALLERY
Galerie VIVID, Rotterdam

ZigZag chair, 1935

Red-stained elm, brass screws
Metz & Co

Lyonel Feininger
Born
July 17, 1871
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
January 13, 1956 (aged 84)
Nationality
German-American
Known for
Painting, Cartoonist, Photography
Elected American Academy of Arts and Letters (1955)

Achievements
His first solo exhibit was at Sturm Gallery in
Berlin, 1917. When Walter Gropius founded
the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger
was his first faculty appointment, and became
the master artist in charge of the printmaking
workshop.
He designed the cover for the Bauhaus 1919
manifesto: an expressionist woodcut
'cathedral
He was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Letters in 1955.

Selected works

1907, Der weie Mann, (Collection Museo Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)

1910, Strae im Dmmern, (Sprengel Museum, Hannover)
1913, Gelmeroda I, (Private collection, New York)
1913, Leuchtbake, (Museum Folkwang, Essen)
1918, Teltow II, (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
1918, "Yellow Streets II", (Muse des Beaux-Arts de Montral, Montral)
1922, Church of Heiligenhafen, (Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC,
USA)
1925, Barferkirche in Erfurt I, (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
1929, Halle, Am Trdel, (Bauhaus-Archive, Berlin)
1931, Die Trme ber der Stadt (Halle), (Museum Ludwig, Kln)
1936, Gelmeroda XIII, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
1940, The River, (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA)

Art market
At a 2001 Christie's
auction in London,
Feininger's painting The
Green Bridge (1909) was
sold for 2.42 million

Most popular produces

1910, Strae im Dmmern

1907, Der weie Mann

Gelmeroda II, 1913,

1918, Teltow II

Lyonel Feininger is popular for me

Lyonel Feininger is best known
as a painter and a founder of the
famous Bauhaus school of art
and architecture; however, he
was also a pioneer of the comic
strip.