1911 in art
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- February 2 – First issue of Franz PfemfertFranz PfemfertFranz Pfemfert was a German journalist, editor of Die Aktion, literary critic, politician and portrait photographer. Pfemfert occasionally wrote under the pseudonym U. Gaday...
's Die AktionDie AktionDie Aktion was a German literary and political magazine, edited by Franz Pfemfert and published between 1911 and 1932 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; it promoted literary Expressionism and stood for left-wing policies... - May 11 – A FuturistFuturismFuturism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.Futurism or futurist may refer to:* Afrofuturism, an African-American and African diaspora subculture* Cubo-Futurism* Ego-Futurism...
exhibition in MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete - August 21 – Mona LisaMona LisaMona Lisa is a portrait by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplar panel, completed circa 1503–1519...
stolen from the Musée du Louvre - Creation of Der Blaue ReiterDer Blaue ReiterDer Blaue Reiter was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and...
Group (first exhibition opens December 18 in MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
) - Creation of the Puteaux Group
- Creation of the Camden Town GroupCamden Town GroupThe Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists active 1911-1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London.-History:...
Works
- Umberto BoccioniUmberto BoccioniUmberto Boccioni was an Italian painter and sculptor. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement , speed, and technology. He was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.-Biography:...
- The Street Enters the HouseThe Street Enters the HouseThe Street Enters the House is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Umberto Boccioni. Painted in the Futurist style, the work centres around a woman on a balcony in front of a busy street, with the sounds of the activity below portrayed as a riot of shapes and colours... - Carlo CarràCarlo CarràCarlo Carrà was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He taught for many years in the city of Milan.-Biography:Carrà was born in...
- The Funeral of the Anarchist GalliThe Funeral of the Anarchist GalliThe Funeral of the Anarchist Galli is a painting by Italian painter Carlo Carrà. It was finished in 1911, during the artist's futurist phase. It currently resides in New York City's Museum of Modern Art.... - Marc ChagallMarc ChagallMarc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
- I and the VillageI and the VillageI and the Village is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is currently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.The work contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping each other in a... - Giorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de ChiricoGiorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
- The Nostalgia of the Infinite - Robert DelaunayRobert DelaunayRobert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee...
- Eiffel Tower - Lydia Field EmmetLydia Field EmmetLydia Field Emmet was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Henry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and Tony Robert-Fleury...
- Olivia - Jacob EpsteinJacob EpsteinSir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter...
- Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
Memorial - Alfons KarpińskiAlfons KarpinskiAlfons Karpiński was a Polish painter specializing in portraits of women, still-life and foreign landscape of Italy and France. Karpiński studied painting in Kraków at the School of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski between and after 1903 at the Munich Academy under Anton Ažbe, until 1907...
- The Parisian Street - Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
- L'Atelier RougeL'Atelier RougeL'Atelier Rouge, also known as The Red Studio, is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1911, in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art New York City.... - Piet MondrianPiet MondrianPieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian , was a Dutch painter.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism...
- Gray TreeGray TreeGray Tree is an oil painting by Piet Mondrian. This painting was made in 1912 on canvas on a board measuring 78.5 × 107.5 cm. It is presently exhibited at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague.... - Emil NoldeEmil NoldeEmil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors...
- Maskenstilleben ("Masks Still Life") - Pablo PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
- The AccordionistThe AccordionistThe Accordionist is a 1911 painting by Pablo Picasso. As stated by the title, the painting is meant to portray a man playing an accordion. The division of three-dimensional forms into a two-dimensional plane indicate that the painting is in the style of analytic cubism, which was developed by...
Births
- March 17 - David Park, American painter (d. 19601960 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Judy Cassab - Stanislaus Rapotec*Prix de Rome - Pierre Carron-Works:*M. C. Escher - Ascending and Descending*Barbara Hepworth - Figure for a Landscape and Archaeon*Yves Klein - A Leap Into The Void...
) - May 14 - Carl AbrahamsCarl AbrahamsCarl Abrahams OD was a Jamaican painter from the parish of St. Andrew. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica and began his career in commercial art at the age of 17 as a cartoonist and an illustrator for The Daily Gleaner and The Jamaica Times...
, JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n painter (d.20052005 in art-Events:*12–27 February, 2005 – Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park*30 September – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.-Awards:...
) - May 25 - Will BarnetWill BarnetWill Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.-Biography:...
, American painter, printmaker - August 10 - Bruce ArissBruce ArissBruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. was an American artist and writer.-Life:Bruce Ariss has been influential in Monterey, California, where a street and theatre have been named after him. In addition, he has numerous murals there, at least some of which were 1930s Works Progress Administration projects...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
(d.19941994 in art-Events:*12 February – Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo .*8 April – Michelangelo's Universal Judgement is reopened to public after 10 years of restorations.-Awards:...
). - September 2 - Romare BeardenRomare BeardenRomare Bearden was an African American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils, and collage.-Education:...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter, printmaker (d.19881988 in art-Events:*Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard*Turner Prize – Tony Cragg-January to June:*19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist ....
). - October 9 - Joe RosenthalJoe RosenthalJoseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war.-Early life:Joseph Rosenthal was born on...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning photographer (d.20062006 in art-Events:*Rembrandt 400: Series of activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt.*31 August – The stolen Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid in Oslo, Norway....
). - November 11 - Roberto MattaRoberto MattaRoberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art....
, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an painter (d.20022002 in art-Events:*10 July – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million to Lord Thomson of Fleet....
). - November 25 - Roelof FrankotRoelof FrankotRoelof Frankot was a Dutch painter. By education he was a photographer, but in 1930, he started painting. He later had a strong relation with the CoBrA movement, and his artworks are quite similar to some of the art from the CoBrA movement. They are very abstract and spontaneous paintings in...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
painter (d.19841984 in art-Works:*Felim Egan - Battle of Hercules and Antaeus*John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas -January to June:*6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany ....
). - December 25 - Louise BourgeoisLouise BourgeoisLouise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter and sculptor.
Deaths
- January 19 - Valentin SerovValentin SerovValentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era.-Youth and education:...
, Russian painter (b. 18651865 in art-Events:*July 21 - Charles Dodgson photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place*Ford Madox Brown completes his painting Work after thirteen years....
) - February 22 - Carl Fredrik HillCarl Fredrik HillCarl Fredrik Hill was a Swedish painter.-Early life and training:Born the son of a mathematics professor, Hill grew up in the narrowness of the university town of Lund in southern Sweden and had to strike out his career as a landscape painter against his father’s resistance. After studying at the...
, Swedish painter (b. 18491849 in art-Events:* May – First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner, London.* May – John Ruskin...
) - April 13 - William KeithWilliam Keith (artist)William Keith was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes.-Early life:Keith was born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850. He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856...
, landscape painter (b. 18381838 in art-Events:*August 31 - David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.-Works:...
) - April 19 - Ivan GroharIvan GroharIvan Grohar was a Slovene Impressionist painter. Together with Rihard Jakopič, Matej Sternen and Matija Jama, he is considered one of the leading figures of Slovene impressionism in the fin de siecle period.- Life :...
, Slovenian Impressionist painter (b. 18671867 in art-Paintings:*George Henry Boughton - Pilgrims Going To Church*Giuseppe Calì - Death of Dragut *Edgar Degas - The Bellelli Family completed *Édouard Manet...
) - May 5 - Halsey IvesHalsey IvesHalsey Cooley Ives was the founder of the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. The institution later became two distinct bodies; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Washington University School of Art which includes the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum...
, art teacher and curator (b. 18471847 in art-Events:*William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.-Works:*Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus*Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight...
) - May 8 - Alphonse LegrosAlphonse LegrosAlphonse Legros , painter, etcher and sculptor was born in Dijon. His father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes....
, painter and etcher (b. 18371837 in art-Works:*John Martin – Manfred and the Witch of the Alps-Births:*February 12 – Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School *May 8 – Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher *June 8 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic...
) - August 1 – Edwin Austin AbbeyEdwin Austin AbbeyEdwin Austin Abbey was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's...
, American painter and illustrator (b. 18521852 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning*William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia-Births:*April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator...
) - August 12 - Jozef IsraëlsJozef IsraëlsJozef Israëls was a Dutch painter, and "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century".-Youth:...
, painter (b. 18241824 in art-Events:*April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London....
) - September 16 - Hishida ShunsōHishida Shunsowas the pseudonym of a Japanese painter from the Meiji period. One of Okakura Tenshin's pupils along with Yokoyama Taikan and Shimomura Kanzan, he played a role in the Meiji era innovation of Nihonga. His real name was Hishida Miyoji. He was also known for his numerous paintings of cats.- Early...
, Japanese painter (b. 18741874 in art-Events:*April 15 - First Impressionist exhibition opens in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon; Louis Leroy in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari coins the term "impressionism"....
) - November 10 – Félix ZiemFélix ZiemFélix Ziem was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School.Born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d'Or département of the Burgundy région of France, his mother was a native of Burgundy who married a Croatian immigrant...
, French painter (b. 18211821 in art-Events:*At the age of eleven, Théodore Chassériau is accepted into the studio of Ingres.-Works:*Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain*John Constable – The Hay Wain-Births:* January 27 - August Becker, painter...
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