1915 in art
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Events
- Harper's BazaarHarper's BazaarHarper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
hires Erté to design its covers. - Ambrose HealAmbrose HealSir Ambrose Heal was an English furniture designer, and businessman in the first half of the 20th century....
and others found the Design and Industries AssociationDesign and Industries AssociationThe Design and Industries Association is a United Kingdom charity whose object is to engage with all those who share a common interest in the contribution that design can make to the delivery of goods and services that are sustainable and enhance the quality of life for communities and the...
in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. - The only VorticistVorticismVorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. It was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.-Origins:...
exhibition is staged, at the Doré Gallery in London..
Works
- Frank Weston BensonFrank Weston BensonFrank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the...
- Red and Gold - 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 Double Dream of SpringThe Double Dream of SpringThe Double Dream of Spring is a painting by the Greek-Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.... - Isaac RosenbergIsaac RosenbergIsaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
- Self-portrait - Anders ZornAnders ZornAnders Leonard Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching.-Biography:...
- Self-portrait in Red - Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
- begins producing readymadesReadymades of Marcel DuchampThe readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the object became art... - 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...
- Le rideau jauneLe rideau jauneLe rideau jaune is a painting by Henri Matisse painted in 1915. Its size is 57½ × 38⅛" .It is currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It was donated to them as a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Nelson Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Weintraub,... - Carl LarssonCarl LarssonCarl Larsson was a Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes...
- MidvinterblotMidvinterblotMidvinterblot is a painting created for the hall of the central staircase in Nationalmuseum in Stockholm by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson in 1915. It is Sweden's most debated painting.... - Wyndham LewisWyndham LewisPercy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...
- The Crowd - C. R. W. Nevinson - La Mitrailleuse
- Konstantin YuonKonstantin YuonKonstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.-Biography:...
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Births
- January 24 - Robert MotherwellRobert MotherwellRobert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
, American abstract expressionistAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and printmaker (d.19911991 in art-Events:*14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.*Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art....
). - February 11 - Mervyn LevyMervyn LevyMervyn Levy was a Welsh artist, art dealer, writer and critic. He is also known for his association with the poet Dylan Thomas as one of The Kardomah Gang....
, WelshWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
artist and critic (d.19961996 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville*Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney...
). - March 10 - Harry BertoiaHarry BertoiaHarry Bertoia , was an Italian-born artist, sculptor, and modern furniture designer....
, Italian-born American artist and designer (d.19781978 in art-Works:* Dan Flavin - untitled * Helen Frankenthaler - Cleveland Symphony Orchestra* Jack Goldstein - The Jump* Liz Leyh - Concrete Cows, Milton Keynes* Dennis Oppenheim - Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion...
). - April 4 - Louis ArchambaultLouis ArchambaultLouis Archambault, was a Quebec sculptor.Born in Montreal, Quebec, he won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal in 1958.In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada....
, Canadian sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(d.20032003 in art-Events:*January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed.*May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.*November – Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.-Full date unknown:...
). - April 6 - Tadeusz KantorTadeusz KantorTadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad.- Life and career :...
, PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, assemblageAssemblage (art)Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects...
artist, set designer and theatre director (d.19901990 in art-Events:*18 March – Twelve paintings, collectively worth from $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers...
) - April 15 - Elizabeth CatlettElizabeth CatlettElizabeth Catlett Mora is an African-American sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black, expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s, which are seen as politically charged....
, African-American artist - May 3 - Richard LippoldRichard LippoldRichard Lippold was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium....
, American sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(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....
) - May 20 - Sam GoldenSam GoldenSam Golden started his paintmaking career in 1936 at Bocour Artist Colors with his uncle Leonard Bocour. In 1947 he developed Magna paint, the world's first artist acrylic paint. He returned from retirement in 1980 to found Golden Artist Colors Inc...
, paint maker (d.19971997 in art-Events:*27 January – It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis.*6 March – Pablo Picasso's Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery ....
) - June 17 - Gunther GerzsoGünther GerzsoGunther Gerzso was a Hungarian Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre.Born in Mexico City, in the times of the Revolution, to Oscar Gerzso , a Hungarian immigrant and Dore Wendland, German by birth. After his father's death, a few months after Gunther was...
, abstract painter - August 28 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator and author of children's books (d.20082008 in art-Awards:* Caldecott Medal – Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret* Hugo Boss Prize – Emily Jacir* Doug Moran National Portrait Prize – Fiona Lowry* Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Mona Hatoum...
) - October 13 - Terry FrostTerry FrostSir Terry Frost RA was an English artist noted for his abstracts....
, English artist noted for his abstractAbstract artAbstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
s (d.20032003 in art-Events:*January 21 – The Spire of Dublin is completed.*May 11 – Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.*November – Gustav Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sells for $29,128,000.-Full date unknown:...
) - October 13 - Ricco WassmerRicco WassmerRicco Wassmer was a Swiss painter.-Life:Erich Wassmer was born in upper-class circumstances as the son of cement factory owner and art patron Max Wassmer . Since the age of 3 he grew up at Bremgarten Castle near Berne, which was filled with art and culture...
, Swiss painter (d.19721972 in art-Events:* 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.* Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
) - October 24 - Bob KaneBob KaneBob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
, American comic book artistComic Book ArtistComic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...
and writer (d.19981998 in art-Events:*April – Fans of Newcastle United FC decorate the newly-erected Angel of the North sculpture with a giant replica of Alan Shearer's no. 9 shirt...
) - November 9 - André FrançoisAndré FrançoisAndré François , born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.He was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary , He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest . He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered to the atelier of the famous poster artist Adolphe Cassandre...
, French cartoonist (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:...
) - date unknown - José CaballeroJosé CaballeroJosé Caballero was a Spanish painter.Caballero was born in Huelva, where he studied at the College of the Augustine Fathers. He died in Madrid.-External links:*...
, Spanish artist
Deaths
- February 25 - Flaxman Charles John SpurrellFlaxman Charles John SpurrellFlaxman Charles John Spurrell , the archaeologist, geologist and photographer, was born in Mile End, Stepney, London, the eldest son of Dr. Flaxman Spurrell, M.D., F.R.C.S., and Ann Spurrell...
, photographer (b. 18421842 in art-Events:*Richard Dadd becomes mentally ill during a tour of the Middle East and is thought to be suffering from sunstroke.*Construction work resumes on Cologne Cathedral, after a gap of nearly three centuries....
) - April 9 - Karl BitterKarl BitterKarl Theodore Francis Bitter was an Austrian-born United States sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture, memorials and residential work.- Life and career :...
, sculptor - May 7 - Sir Hugh LaneHugh LaneSir Hugh Percy Lane is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Ireland...
, art collector (b. 18751875 in art-Paintings:*Gustave Caillebotte - Floor-scrapers *Jean-Paul Laurens - L'Excommunication de Robert le Pieux ...
) - July 11 - Albert SchickedanzAlbert SchickedanzAlbert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style....
, Austro-HungarianAustria-HungaryAustria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
and painter in the Eclectic styleEclecticism in artEclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them" . Significantly, Eclecticism hardly ever constituted a specific style in art: it is characterized by the fact that it was not a particular style...
(b. 18461846 in art-Works:*Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape*Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay*Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark*Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound*George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca-Births:...
) - September 14 - Alfred AgacheAlfred Agache (painter)Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache , also known simply as Alfred Agache, was a French academic painter....
, painter (b. 18431843 in art-Events:*August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, murders his father.*John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.-Births:*March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter...
) - October 24 - Désiré CharnayDésiré CharnayClaude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries....
, pioneer photographer (b. 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - November 28 - Kobayashi KiyochikaKobayashi Kiyochikawas a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Meiji period.Kiyochika is best known for his prints of scenes around Tokyo which reflect the transformations of modernity. He has been described as "the last important ukiyo-e master and the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan.....
, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (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...
) - December 22 - Arthur HughesArthur Hughes (artist)Arthur Hughes , was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He is the uncle of the English painter Edward Robert Hughes.-Biography:Hughes was born in London...
, painter and illustrator (b. 18321832 in art-Awards:*Prix de Rome**for painting – Antoine Wiertz**for sculpture – François Jouffroy-Works:*Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa-Births:*January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator *January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter,...
) - date unknown
- Luigi CrosioLuigi CrosioLuigi Crosio was an Italian painter who lived and worked in Turin, Italy. He died in Turin and is recorded as having been born in Alba, but the town of Aqua a few miles north of Alba claims Crosio was born there....
, painter (b. 18351835 in art-Works:*John Constable – The Valley Farm*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Hagar in the Desert-Births:*March 31 – John LaFarge, painter and stained-glass artist *June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet...
) - Kikuchi ShingakuKikuchi Shingakuwas a renowned Japanese photographer. He was taught by Yokoyama Matsusaburō.-References:...
, photographer (b. 18321832 in art-Awards:*Prix de Rome**for painting – Antoine Wiertz**for sculpture – François Jouffroy-Works:*Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa-Births:*January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator *January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter,...
) - Hilda SjölinHilda SjölinHilda Sjölin , was a Swedish photographer, likely the first professional woman pioneer photographer in her country.Sjölin was raised in Malmö as one of four daughters. On 24 May 1860 she advertised in Malmö that she performed photography on glass, waxcanvas and paper, and by February 1861, she...
, Swedish photographer (b. 18351835 in art-Works:*John Constable – The Valley Farm*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Hagar in the Desert-Births:*March 31 – John LaFarge, painter and stained-glass artist *June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet...
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- Luigi Crosio