Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art]
Theo van Doesburg's 1925 treatise on Neo-Plasticism, issued in German as volume six of the Bauhausbücher in Munich for artists, architects and design students. The plates are halftone reproductions on white grounds — flat black-and-grey geometric compositions, rectangle grids, a stone-bound portrait bust, and an old-master landscape printed sideways with captions — usable for hard-edged abstract shapes, plate grids and numbered figure labels.
![Picture 1 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 45](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-45-0@270.webp)
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![Picture 3 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 49](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-49-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 52](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-52-0.webp)
![Picture 5 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 55](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-55-0.webp)
![Picture 6 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 57](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-57-0.webp)
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![Picture 8 of 10 from Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst [Basic Concepts of the New Creative Art] (1925), leaf 61](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-grundgegriffe-der-neuen-gestaltenden-kunst-doesburg-1925-61-0.webp)
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