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Dutch painter born in Germany. He studied Architecture and Interior Design at the Kunstgewerbeschule and Technische Hochschule in Hanover in 1919. After 1922, he was assistant in the studio of Ludwig Vierthaler and, in 1923-24, produced radical pictorial structures. Vordemberge-Gildewart quickly won critical attention, particularly after having taken part in the first Kestner-Gesellschaft exhibition in Hanover (1924). He met Schwitters, Arp and Theo van Doesburg, through whom he was accepted into the De Stijl group. In 1927, he joined Schwitters, Carl Buchheister, Rudolf Jahns and César Domela in forming Die Abstrakten Hanover group. He also co-founded Ring Neue Werbegestalter. In 1929, he had his first one-man show at the Povolozky Gallery in Paris and, a year later, he became involved with the Cercle et Carré group. He lived in Berlin, Zurich and Amsterdam and, in 1939, he took part in the Réalités Nouvelles exhibition, in Paris. In 1942, he was director of Edition Duwaer, Amsterdam and, in 1954, taught at the Ulm School of Design. In 1955 and 1959, he took part in Documenta 1 and 2 in Kassel. In 1974, he had a major retrospective at the Juda Gallery in London and, in 1985, at the Museu Wihelm-Hack in Ludwigshafen. His abstract compositions, reduced to the most elementary forms, made him one of the most important representatives of the Constructivist movement begun by Theo van Doesburg.

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