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Mathieu Schoenmaekers (1875–1944) is remembered as the philosopher behind the Dutch art movement
De Stijl, made world famous by Piet Mondriaan. Here's a short account of how this happened: in 1910 the philosophically inclined Schoenmaekers (a former Catholic priest) came up with a new religious view. He called it
Plastic mathematics or
Positive mysticism, the word ‘positive’ meaning scientific.