Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (born 1872) was a Dutch painter whose works, characterized
by intersecting perpendicular lines and planes of primary colors, profoundly influenced the development of abstract art.
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Mondriaan lived and worked in Amsterdam, The Hague, Paris and New York.
In the last years of his life Mondriaan worked on a painting that would become
his most famous work of art: "Victory Boogie Woogie". He was still working on this
painting when he died in New York in 1944.