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Why did Piet Mondrian leave Paris for London in 1938?
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Piet Mondrian
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian left Paris for London in 1938 due to the rising threat of war in Europe, specifically under the shadow of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Adolf Hitler. Upon his arrival in London, he was welcomed by members of the Circle group, an international collective of artists with whom he had previously collaborated.1