He was hooked immediately. On spotting an attractive farmhouse or barn, he would immediately exclaim that he was definitely going to make “a thing” – an artwork. He resolved to come back. And he did. In January 1904, Mondrian moved to the Brabant village of Uden. There he found inspiration for numerous paintings and drawings in the farmhouses, interiors, windmills, and cows in fields.
In the farmhouses of Brabant he discovered an interplay of lines, planes and relationships that interested him. In retrospect, it portended his later explorations in non-figurative art. After a year in rural Brabant, Mondrian had recovered and begun to long for the city. He returned to Amsterdam on 27 January 1905.