Piet Mondrian, Komposition mit großer roter Fläche, Gelb, Schwarz, Grau und Blau, 1921 © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, c/o HCR International, Warrenton VA USA

COLOGNE, GERMANY.- Museum Ludwig presents a truly comprehensive Mondrian exhibition that charts his artistic developments right from his first paintings to the abstracts of his later years, on view through March 30, 2008. Above all, Piet Mondrian’s Neoplastic paintings number among the unmistakable icons of classical modernism. Even when we have no concrete knowledge of the artist as a person, or of his work, the sight of these black and white rectangular compositions filled with the primary colours red, yellow and blue is nevertheless imprinted on our collective aesthetic consciousness - in a way that goes far beyond art. This is in no small part due to the constant use made of them by advertising.

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Piet Mondrian, Avond (Abend); Der rote Baum / Avond; The Red Tree, 1908-10. © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, c/o HCR International, Warrenton VA USA