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• de Stijl
  de Stijl

  noun

  a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.
• De Stijl
  De Stijl

  noun

  a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada

de Stijl

American  

[duh stahyl] / də ˈstaɪl /

Or De Stijl

noun

1. a school of art that was founded in the Netherlands in 1917, embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts, and was marked especially by the use of black and white with the primary colors, rectangular forms, and asymmetry.

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De Stijl British  

/ də staɪl /

noun

1. a group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, including Mondrian and van Doesburg, devoted to neoplasticism and then dada

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Etymology

Origin of de Stijl

1930–35; < Dutch: literally, the style, the name of a magazine published by participants in the movement

Example Sentences

In 1936, MoMA’s first director Alfred H. Barr Jr. drew a famous diagram of modern art’s development, with arrows leading from Cézanne to Cubism, thence to de Stijl and Dada, and triumphantly to abstraction.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2020

Both were connected to the early-20th-century abstract art movement de Stijl, known for geometric shapes and primary colors.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2020

He also used primary colors and clear lines favored by members of the Dutch de Stijl movement, a pared-down, abstract aesthetic heralded by artists like Mondrian and the designer Gerrit Rietveld.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2017

Hariri & Hariri are versatile designers, flexible in their Modernism, and they appropriated a de Stijl design vocabulary straight from the Museum of Modern Art a dozen blocks away.

From Architectural Digest • Jan. 1, 2010

Nothing could sound more universal than the Style, or de Stijl as its Dutch founders dubbed it in 1917.

From Time Magazine Archive