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Mondrian Lecture

1989 MONDRIAN LECTURE A DEFENSE OF UTOPIA — ARTHUR MÜLLER LEHNING — The 1989 Piet Mondrian Lecture was given by the 90-year-old Arthur Müller Lehning, a political activist who founded the international review i 10 in 1927. Amongst others, the architects J.J.P. Oud, Rietveld, Van Eesteren, the artists, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy and the writers Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch contributed to this review – a coming together of artistic disciplines which obviously appealed to the Sikkens Foundation. Be- fore Müller Lehning gave his lecture, “A defense of Utopia”, a film portrait of him was shown which was re- corded for the VPRO in Berlin in 1982 by Hans Keller. The choice for Arthur Müller Lehning was not unrelated to the dramatic developments in the DDR – the Berlin Wall fell a few days after the Mondrian Lecture. Back to index Download text as pdf