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Theo van Doesburg
New Aesthetics for a New World
30 minutes, color, age range: 14 - adult, #502

Theo van Doesburg is best known as a painter and as the founder and editor of the avant-garde magazine De Stijl (The Style, 1917-28). But van Doesburg was also active in other fields: literature, philosophy, architecture, typography. This film explores his life and work, with the emphasis on his architecture, through posthumous works and documentary evidence about the artist and his wife recently given to the Netherlands.
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