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Piet Mondrian
Early Life
Piet Mondrian was a pioneer of abstract painting and was born in Amersfoort in Holland on the 7th of March 1872. In 1880 he moved to Winterswijk when his father, who was a qualified drawing teacher, became headmaster of the local Christian school.
At sixteen, he left school to study drawing and painting and passed his lower certificate examination in 1889, which allowed him to teach at his father’s primary school. In his free time, he painted landscapes in a rather traditional fashion.
In 1892 Piet Mondrian moved to Amsterdam and entered The Rijksacademie.
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He left three years later and earned his living making copies of famous paintings. In 1897 he became a member of St. Lucas, the Artists Association for students at the Rijksacademie and for the next few years continued working by painting copies of museum paintings and producing scientific drawings.
During this period, Piet Mondrian started to exhibit his own landscape painting.
His painting was much