Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondrian (Amersfoort, 7 March 1872 - New York, 1 February 1944) was a Dutch painter and art theorist, who lived and worked abroad in later life. Mondrian is widely regarded as a pioneer of abstract and non-figurative art. His later geometric-abstract work in particular, with its distinctive horizontal and vertical black lines and primary colours, is world-famous and serves as an inspiration to many architects and designers of applied art. He was one of the main contributors to the magazine De Stijl.
