- Born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
- He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897.
- In 1908 he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland.
- His work was naturalistic, incorporating successive influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism and Symbolism.
- In 1909, a major exhibition of his work was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
- He joined the Theosophic Society.
- In 1909 and 1910, he experimented with Pointillism and by 1911 had begun to work in a Cubist mode.
- Mondrian decided to move to Paris.
- From 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style.
- Mondrian was visiting the Netherlands when World War I broke out and prevented his return to Paris.
- During war years in Holland, he further reduced his colors and geometric shapes and formulated his non-objective Neo-Plastic style.
- In 1917, he became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond to architecture and graphic and industrial design.
- Mondrian's essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl.
- He returned to Paris in July 1919.
- He exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group around 1925.
- In 1930, he showed with Cercle et Carré and in 1931 joined Abstraction-Création.
- World War II forced Mondrian to move to London in 1938 and then to settle in New York in October 1940.
- Joined American Abstract Artists in NY and continued to publish texts on Neo-Plasticism.
- His late style evolved significantly in response to the city.
- In 1942, his first solo show took place at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York.
- Mondrian died February 1, 1944, in New York.
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