Landschap bij Uden

Landschap bij Uden (Landscape near Uden) of 1904 situates Mondrian in North Brabant, the Catholic-influenced southern Dutch province where the town of Uden is located. Mondrian was born in Amersfoort in central Holland but spent productive periods in different Dutch regions during his early career. The Brabant landscape was flatter and more agricultural than the more varied terrain of some other Dutch regions, offering the strongly horizontal compositions that characterised his best early work. The Dutch title signals the work's grounding in specific, local observation rather than generic landscape formula.

The composition is organised around a very low horizon line, giving the sky unusual prominence. Ground plane and sky occupy roughly equal portions of the canvas, with the horizon as the activating element between them. Paint handling in the ground zone uses horizontal strokes that reinforce the flat topography.