4 reasons why De Stijl is handicapped without Hendrik Valk

Straight lines, single-coloured surfaces. Red, yellow, blue and white. Representing the essence of reality. That was the aim of the painters of De Stijl in the first half of the last century. At the same time, Hendrik Valk also had this ideal. Consequently, he was asked to join De Stijl by Theo van Doesburg in 1916. He did not. Yet the similarities between Valk and the Stijl artists are great. The Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort presents the exhibition 'Hendrik Valk in de stij...