“Acrobatics”, scene II, produced by Oskar Schlemmer, 1927

Photo by Erich Consemüller © Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

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Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1929

© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust 

ropius worked with De Stijl, the Dutch creative group that includes Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, and
J. J. P. Oud, and the Bauhaus became strongly involved with ideas of neoplasticism, De Stijl’s theory of the equality of opposites: verticals and horizontals, vacancies and masses, black and white, seen as representing the opposition of natural forces.