3/ SCHROEDER GERRIT RIETVELD’S HOUSE

1924

schroeder gerrit rietveld‘s house

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3/ Schroeder Gerrit Rietveld’s House, 1924

It is often said that Rietveld and Truus Schroeder’s plan for the house is a three-dimensional realization of the principles of abstract painter Piet Mondrian. The house even more calls to mind the work of the Russian Suprematists—Malevich’s “arkhitektons” and Lissitzky’s “prouns”.

Gerrit Rietveld, the chief Dutch modernist architect, built this home for the widow Truus Schroeder-Schraeder and her three children, and lived there himself as well.

schroeder gerrit rietveld‘s portrait

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