Louis Hoyack
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Louis Johan August Hoyack (5 March 1893 – 16 February 1967) was a Dutch theosophist, writer, and poet. He lived and worked for a long time in The Hague, and later in France, and was a follower of Sufism.
Biography
Louis Hoyack was born in Rotterdam, the son of Friedrich Carl Hoyack and Brigitte Pauline Baroness Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh (1864–1931). After training in theosophy, Hoyack joined the Sufi Movement. He was present during Inayat Khan's last visit to the Netherlands.
During the interwar period, he developed a long-standing friendship with Piet Mondrian,[1] who also influenced French Cubist painter Albert Gleizes and Margareta Hudig-Frey, with whom he published a historical work. In Louis Andriessen's magnum opus, De Materie, there is a passage in the third movement, "De Stijl", in which Mondriaan dances with Hoyack's wife, which is rhythmically depicted by the music.
In 1934, Hoyack published Ideas on Art and Beauty, which prompted the poet Willem Kloos to write an extensive reflection on the book.
Louis Hoyack died in The Hague.
Private life
Hoyacks had been married twice before he married and went on to live with Johanna Daniëla Cramerus (1891–1979).[2]
Works
- Tijdgeest: een cultuurphilosophische studie (1931)
- De toekomst der machine: sociologische analyse van den modernen tijd (1931)
- Ideeën over Kunst en Schoonheid (1934)
- Die Botschaft von Inayat Khan (1948; with Margareta Hudig-Frey)
- Veertien denkers: sonnetten (1954)
- De philosophie der verveling (1954)
- Heeft het leven een doel?: Een levensleer (1957)
- Homo adorans: beschouwingen over godsdienst en mythologie (1963)
- Schopenhauer, waarheid en dwaling (1968)
Notes
References
- Blotkamp, Carel (2001). Mondrian: The Art of Destruction. London: Reaktion Books.
