The Mondriaan House (Het Mondriaanhuis)

At first glance, it seems that one day in Amersfoort is enough to see all the sights. In fact, it is not the truth. There are plenty of exciting places: you only have to know where to go.

For example, the Mondriaan House, or house-museum of the famous artist Piet Mondriaan, is a small but incredibly beautiful and informative museum in the historic city centre.

It is an actual house, where Piet Mondriaan, rightfully considered one of the brightest representatives of abstract art, was born and grew. Besides, Piet Cornelis Mondriaan is the founder of Neoplasticism, an art movement that may sound to you just like one more mysterious scholarly term. One has to look at the exhibition of the artist’s works, and everything will become clear.

Note that the house-museum is famous not only for being the witness of Mondriaan’s childhood. It also houses the Christian primary school, where the father of Piet was headmaster years ago.

At first, these were two different buildings, the Mondriaans’ house, and the school. But in the mid-20th century, during a large-scale reconstruction of the street, they were united into a single whole.

However, it took the museum a while to be located here. Until 1994, there was a library and a documentation centre. Only in 2001, the house-museum of the outstanding artist received the first visitors.

The Mondriaanhuis has a fascinating spot with a fully-restored interior of the artist’s studio, where he lived and worked from 1919 to 1938. There are also personal belongings of Mondriaan, for example, his famous glasses and a pipe captured in photos of Andre Kertesz. These images have become classic examples of modern photography.

And, of course, the house-museum allows immersing in the abstract symmetrical art of Piet Mondriaan.