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Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Rietveld

Dutch, 1888⚠–1964

WA-00029123

FurnitureNeoplasticismCubismAbstract Art

Representation

None documented

17

Institutional Exhibitions

37

Works in Collection

474

Assets Indexed

51

Authority-backed Facts

20

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

Authority Records (5)

WikidataQ160435 ULAN500009183 AAT300386292 AAT (architect)300024987

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

No image

Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

No image

The Graphic Revolution: 1915�1935

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

No image

Furniture from the Design Collection: Thonet, Guimard, Wright, and Rietveld

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

No image

Architectural Models from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974

No image

Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

No image

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960–1961

No image

20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1958–1959

No image

Recent Acquisitions, 1946�1953: Department of Architecture and Design

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953–1954

No image

De Stijl

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1952–1953

No image

Three Modern Styles

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1950

No image

Modern Art in Your Life

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

Field Verification (49 fields)

12 cross-verified · 37 single-source

Steltman Chair — Rietveld atelier prototype (1963)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Zig-Zag Chair — Cassina authorized reproduction (1973–present)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Zig-Zag Chair — G.A. van de Groenekan original production (1934–1964)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Zig-Zag Chair — G.A. van de Groenekan posthumous production (1964–1973)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Red and Blue Chair — G.A. van de Groenekan posthumous production (1965–1971)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Red and Blue Chair — Original G.A. van de Groenekan period production (1918–1925)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Schroeder Occasional Table — Cassina authorized reproduction (1971–present)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Schroeder Occasional Table — G.A. van de Groenekan production (1923–1971)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Red and Blue Chair — Cassina authorized reproduction (1971–present)Manual Operator Seed Rietveld Gold Standard 2026-05-27· 100%✓
Primary mediumManual Correction Rietveld 2026-05-04· 98%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓
Death yearWikidata· 92%✓
Birth yearManual Correction Rietveld 2026-05-04 + MoMA+1· 98%
Member ofWikidata· 92%
MovementsWikidata· 92%
ChildrenWikidata· 92%
AwardsWikidata· 92%
Wikimedia CommonsWikidata· 92%
Described in sourceWikidata· 92%
Family nameWikidata· 92%
Fields of workWikidata· 92%
GenderWikidata· 92%
Given nameWikidata· 92%
Grave imageWikidata· 92%
In collectionWikidata· 92%
LocationWikidata· 92%
Notable WorksWikidata· 92%
OccupationsWikidata· 92%
Participant InWikidata· 92%
PartnerWikidata· 92%

See all 49 sourced fields (19 more) →

Place Of BirthWikidata· 92%
Place Of BurialWikidata· 92%
Place Of DeathWikidata· 92%
Quora TopicWikidata· 92%
WebsiteWikidata· 92%
Wikidata External IdsWikidata· 92%
Wikidata Project TagsWikidata· 92%
Wikipedia Section RecognitionWikipedia Api· 88%
Biography (Wikipedia)Wikipedia Api· 88%
WikipediaWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia CategoriesWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Mentioned CollaboratorsWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Mentioned WorksWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Section De StijlWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Section De Stijl RevivalWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Section DeathWikipedia Api· 88%
BiographyWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Section Early LifeWikipedia Api· 88%
Wikipedia Section Nieuwe ZakelijkheidWikipedia Api· 88%

Source Registry (8)

Het Nieuwe Instituuthttps://webservices.memorix.nl/mediabank/media?q=Rietveld+AND+entity_uuid:choiceobjects
Tier 1 · Institutional95%
Rijksmuseumhttps://data.rijksmuseum.nl/search/collection?creator=Gerrit+Rietveld
Tier 1 · Institutional93%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4922
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160435
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Vitra Design Museumhttp://collection.design-museum.de/#/en/persons/10308
Tier 1 · Institutional90%
Smithsonian Librarieshttps://api.si.edu/openaccess/api/v1.0/search?q=Gerrit+Rietveld&unit_code=SIL
Tier 1 · Institutional90%
Wikipedia (EN)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Rietveld
Tier 1 · Institutional88%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/gerrit-rietveld
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect whose geometric abstractions defined the De Stijl movement. Working primarily in wood, metal, and primary colors, he created functional objects and spaces that dissolved the boundary between art and utility through rigorous orthogonal composition. His Red and Blue Chair, designed in 1923, exemplifies his belief that industrial design could embody universal principles of order and harmony. Rietveld's architectural work, including the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, applied the same vocabulary of intersecting planes and primary hues to domestic space.

Source: Museum Hni · Trust score: 95% · Updated 8d ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Neoplasticism

Medium

Furniture

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art Victoria and Albert Museum

Canonical record

Artworks (37)

Bench for De Hoeksteen Church, Uithoorn, NL

Bench for De Hoeksteen Church, Uithoorn, NL

1963 · Lacquered steel / parana pine

78 x 216 x 66,5 cm

Steltman

70 x 48 x 44 cm

Steltman Chair (prototype)

1958 · white stained oak

Overall: 70 x 48.8 x 44.2 cm (27 9/16 x 19 3/16 x 17 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Danish Chair

1950 · Bent plywood

63 x 65,5 x 55,5 cm

Untitled / Amersfoort chair

Untitled / Amersfoort chair

1949 · Lacquered tubular steel / lacquered steel wire / lacquered wood / fabric covering

73,0 x 55,2 x 66,2 cm

Untitled / Aluminium Chair

Untitled / Aluminium Chair

1942 · Sheet aluminium

69,5 x 69,5 x 62,5 cm

Untitled

77,7 x 52,5 x 55,5 cm

Zig-Zag Chair

1938 · Birch, laminated and lacquered

76,5 x 36 x 46,5 cm

R 46 No. 1 / Zig-Zag Chair

R 46 No. 1 / Zig-Zag Chair

1938 · Elm / brass

82 x 58 x 56,5 cm

Untitled (lounge chair)

Untitled (lounge chair)

1937 · Wool fabric covering / frame: wood

67,5 x 68 x 90 cm

Untitled

1937 · Wood / fabric covering

71,5 x 131,8 x 87,5 cm

28 7/8 × 14 × 18 in., 14 lb. (73.3 × 35.6 × 45.7 cm, 6.4 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled / Crate Chair

Untitled / Crate Chair

1934 · Lacquered wood

75,9 x 57,7 x 62,5 cm

Crate Chair, Kratstoel

Crate Chair, Kratstoel

1934 · Lacquered pine

59,5 x 58,2 x 76,8 cm

Crate Table

1934 · Lacquered wood

70,5 x 100 x 59,7 cm

Zig-Zag Chair

Victoria and Albert Museum

Untitled (lounge chair)

Untitled (lounge chair)

1933 · Bent plywood and solid wood, both lacquered

51,3 x 39,3 x 63 cm

Untitled / Zig-Zag Chair

Untitled / Zig-Zag Chair

1932 · Lacquered pine

75,7 x 37 x 46 cm

Zig-Zag Chair

1932 · Lacquered wood / metal nuts and bolts

75,4 x 39,3 x 44,7 cm

1932 · Graphite, ink, crayon, and pasted printed label on paper

33 1/4 × 23 in. (84.5 × 58.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

r 6

1931 · Laminated wood and solid wood, stained and spray-painted / paper / chrome-plated (tubular) steel / handles: glass and metal

75 x 152,5 x 92 cm

Untitled / Nijland Table

Untitled / Nijland Table

1930 · Stained solid wood / stained plywood

70,3 x 83,0 x 61,3 cm

Untitled (shelf)

Untitled (shelf)

1930 · Varnished oak / lacquered metal / chrome-plated tubular steel / wing nuts

76,5 x 210,0 x 40,5 cm

Beugelstoel, Tube-Framed Chair

Beugelstoel, Tube-Framed Chair

1927 · Lacquered tubular steel / lacquered plywood / lacquered pine

91 x 61 x 88 cm

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Artwork sources (17)

37 published of 246 catalogued · 186 with image

Vitra Design Museum
28 published28 img
MoMA
5 publishedof 20 catalogued16 img
The Met
2 published
Victoria & Albert
1 published1 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published
+ 12 more sources · 194 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

97 entries · 4 sources

Untitled / Aluminium Chair
1942 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Untitled / Piano Chair
1923 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Crate Chair, Kratstoel
1934 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Military Chair
1923 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Beugelstoel, Tube-Framed Chair
1927 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Untitled / Zig-Zag Chair
1932 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Red Blue Chair
1918 · Vitra · 10 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·descriptionVitra·primary_image_urlDerivation T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Beugelstoel
1927 · Vitra · 9 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Untitled
1937 · Vitra · 9 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne
Untitled (shelf)
1930 · Vitra · 9 prov
Vitra·titleVitra·year_createdVitra·mediumVitra·dimensionsVitra·primary_image_urlVitra·artwork_typeSource Key Mapping T Rietveld Gold Standard S5·holding_institutionRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·catalog_raisonne_referenceRietveld Raisonne Crossref S3 2026 05 28·in_catalog_raisonne

Record

Images

Red-Blue Chair (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

51

Makers & Fabricators1

Gerard van de Groenekan

Collaborators5

Mrs. Truus Schröder-SchräderVilmos Huszár Theo van Doesburg Mart Stam Frederick Kiesler

Influence6

Aldo van EyckinfluenceHerman HertzbergerinfluenceHendrik Petrus BerlageinfluenceFrank Lloyd Wrightinfluence Theo van Doesburginfluence Karl Friedrich Schinkelinfluence

Peers & Context21

J.J.P. Oudsimilar Vilmos Huszársame movement Bart van der Lecksame movement Frederick Kieslersame movement Theo van Doesburgsame movement Piet Zwartsame movement

Movements5

Neoplasticism Cubism Abstract Art Geometric Abstraction De Stijl

Collections13

Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art Victoria and Albert MuseumHet Nieuwe Instituut141 worksVitra Design Museum28 worksRijksmuseum12 works

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

Background

Education

P.J.C. Klaarhamer studio, Utrecht

architecture course, architecture · 1915

C.J. Begeer (jeweller), Utrecht

drafting course, technical drafting / jewellery design · 1911

Johannes Cornelis Rietveld furniture workshop, Utrecht

apprenticeship, furniture making · 1906

Record

Selected Credits

14 total

1979Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1979Art of the Twenties — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1977The Graphic Revolution: 1915�1935 — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1975Furniture from the Design Collection: Thonet, Guimard, Wright, and Rietveld — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1974Architectural Models from the Collection — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1964Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1960Recent Acquisitions — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

195820th Century Design from the Museum Collection — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1953Recent Acquisitions, 1946�1953: Department of Architecture and Design — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1952De Stijl — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1950Three Modern Styles — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1949Modern Art in Your Life — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1936Cubism and Abstract Art — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

1932Modern Architecture: International Exhibition — Museum of Modern Artexhibition

Network

Related Artists

Gerard van de Groenekan

craftsman executed for

Theo van Doesburg

Frank Lloyd Wright

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Frederick Kiesler

Record

Exhibitions and timeline