De Stijl
Van 't Hoff's attempts to influence the "De Stijl" group in a more avowedly political direction met with frustration, however. The first "De Stijl" manifesto, published in November 1918, was interpreted by most of the group's members as a largely artistic statement, rather than the revolutionary document van 't Hoff sought. Van't Hoff criticised Van Doesburg in the summer of 1919 for exhibiting individually rather than maintaining an exclusive commitment to the "De Stijl" collective. In October 1919 Van Doesburg failed to circulate a petition demanding free postal interchange with the Soviet Union that had been signed by leading Dutch artists and designers and this prompted van 't Hoff to make a final and decisively split from both "De Stijl" and van Doesburg, remarking that "In Russia they execute such people".