1919 in art
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- Walter GropiusWalter GropiusWalter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
founds the BauhausBauhaus', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...
. - Seven and Five SocietySeven and Five SocietyThe Seven and Five Society was an art group of seven painters and five sculptors created in 1919 and based in London.The group was originally intended to encompass traditional, conservative artistic sensibilities...
established 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...
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- Evelyn De MorganEvelyn De MorganEvelyn De Morgan was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter.She was born Evelyn Pickering. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract...
- The Gilded CageThe Gilded CageThe Gilded Cage is an oil painting by Evelyn De Morgan, her final work before her death in 1919. It is essentially an allegory for female captivity.... - Aleksandra EksterAleksandra EksterAleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
- City at Night - Max ErnstMax ErnstMax Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.-Early life:...
- Aquis SubmersusAquis SubmersusAquis Submersus is a painting by the German dadaist/surrealist Max Ernst. It is one of Ernst’s earliest known surrealist works.It depicts a swimming pool surrounded by buildings. The sense of dimension is unclear. The features of the buildings appear to be hand-drawn. The buildings leave shadows... - Elsa von Freytag-LoringhovenElsa von Freytag-LoringhovenBaroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.-Early life:Freytag-Loringhoven was born Elsa Hildegard Plötz in Swinemünde , German Empire,...
- Portrait of Marcel DuchampPortrait of Marcel Duchamp"Portrait of Marcel Duchamp" is a 1919 work of art by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. It is an example of readymade art, a term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to describe his found 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...
- Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes") - Paul NashPaul Nash (artist)Paul Nash was a British landscape painter, surrealist and war artist, as well as a book-illustrator, writer and designer of applied art. He was the older brother of the artist John Nash.-Early life:...
- The Menin Road - 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...
- Still Life with Pitcher and Apples - John Singer SargentJohn Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
- GassedGassed (painting)Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station... - Edward WadsworthEdward WadsworthEdward Alexander Wadsworth was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism. He painted, often in tempera, coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life...
- Dazzle-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool
January to June
- January 5 - Frederick HammersleyFrederick HammersleyFrederick Hammersley was a critically acclaimed American abstract painter whose participation in the landmark 1959 Four Abstract Classicists exhibit secured his place in art history.-Early years:...
, American painter (d.20092009 in artThe year 2009 in art involves some significant events. It was the Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009.-Events:*September 24 - René Magritte's painting Olympia is stolen from the museum at his former home, rue Esseghem 135 in Brussels, by two armed men...
) - January 19 - Joan BrossaJoan BrossaJoan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...
, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (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...
) - January 22 - John RussellJohn Russell (art critic)John Russell CBE was a British American art critic.-Life and career:John Russell was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England, in 1919. He attended St Paul's School and then Magdalen College, Oxford....
, British AmericanBritish AmericanBritish Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom . The term is seldom used by people to refer to themselves and is used primarily as a demographic or historical research term...
art criticArt criticAn art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...
(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...
) - January 24 - William CopleyWilliam Copley (artist)You may be looking for the 19th Century Australian politician, also named William Copley.William Nelson Copley was an American artist who lived in New York.He signed his Surrealist style paintings CPLY....
, American artist (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 23 - Salvatore ScarpittaSalvatore ScarpittaSalvatore Scarpitta was an American artist best known for his sculptural studies of motion.Scarpitta was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles graduating from Hollywood High School. He then attended the premier art university in Europe, the Academia di Belle Arte in Rome...
, American sculptor (d.20072007 in art-Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....
). - April 9 - Gordon LambertGordon LambertC. Gordon Lambert was an Irish art collector who, in 1992, donated over 300 paintings to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He had earlier campaigned for an Irish national modern art collection to be established and had been a prominent figure in the Irish art scene. He spent almost all of his...
, Irish art collector (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:...
). - April 24 - César ManriqueCésar ManriqueCésar Manrique was an artist and an architect.-Biography:Manrique grew up in the area of San Ginés lagoon. At age 23, he participated in his first exhibition in Arrecife. He attended the University of La Laguna. In 1945, Manrique attended the art school San Fernando in Madrid for five years...
, Spanish artist and architect (d.19921992 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...
). - May 3 - John Cullen MurphyJohn Cullen MurphyJohn Cullen Murphy was an American illustrator best known for his three decades of work on the Prince Valiant comic strip....
, American comics artist (d.20042004 in artThe year 2004 in art involved some significant events.-Events:*24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.-Awards:...
). - May 9 - Anne YeatsAnne YeatsAnne Butler Yeats was an Irish painter and stage designer. She was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats, niece of Lily Yeats an embroiderer associated with the Celtic Revival, and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats...
, Irish painter and stage designer (d.20012001 in art-Events:*1 January – A black monolith measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey....
). - June 21 - Jean JoyetJean JoyetJean Joyet was a French painter of the School of Paris, born 21 June 1919 in Saint Victurnien and dead 14 April 1994.Married to Marcelle Deloron, painter too, he was linked to other painters of the "Young Picture of the School of Paris" and chiefly to Louis Vuillermoz, Jean-Pierre Alaux and Maurice...
, French artist (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:...
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July to December
- July 6 - Oswaldo GuayasamínOswaldo GuayasamínOswaldo Guayasamín was a Quechua native and Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor.-Early life:...
, EcuadorEcuadorEcuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
ian painter and sculptor (d.19991999 in art-Events:*28 May – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.*The Stuckism movement is founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.-Works:*Louise Bourgeois – Maman...
). - July 17 - Jean LeymarieJean Leymarie (art historian)Jean Leymarie was a French art historian.-Life:Born into a peasant family, he pursued his studies in Toulouse then Paris. After the Second World War, he began his museum career...
, French art historian (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....
). - July 18 - Daniel du JanerandDaniel du JanerandDaniel du Janerand was a French painter artistborn in the "Marais", center of Paris, on 18 July 1919.-Artistic life:*École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris;*Member founder of the Salon "Comparaisons";...
, French painter (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...
). - July 31 - Maurice BoitelMaurice BoitelMaurice Boitel Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007 in Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais), was a French painter.-Artistic life:Maurice Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves...
, French painter (d.20072007 in art-Events:*18 October – In New York City one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure on the evening of the opening of a major Caravaggio exhibition, amidst scandal and lawsuits....
). - September 29 - Vladimír VašíčekVladimír VašícekVladimír Vašíček was a Czech painter, one of pioneers and classics of Czech modern and abstract painting past the Second World War.-External links:* ** , written by Josef Maliva, 1993** , Česky – English, 2005* *...
, CzechCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
painter (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:...
). - November 3 - Jesús BlascoJesús BlascoJesús Blasco was a Spanish author and artist of comic books, whose career covered most of the conventional history of comic strips. He worked extensively in British comics in the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...
, Spanish comic books author and artist (d.19951995 in art-Works:*Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping*Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton-Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet*Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg*Turner Prize – Damien Hirst...
). - November 11 - Jef FribouletJef FribouletJef Friboulet, born Émile Jean Jules Friboulet was a Norman-French painter and sculptor.*Pictures:La Japonaise , La Langouste, etc.*Sculptures:Le violoncelliste, etc-External links:...
, French painter and sculptor (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:...
). - December 24 - Pierre SoulagesPierre SoulagesPierre Soulages is a French painter, engraver, and sculptor.-Biography:Born in Rodez in 1919, Soulages also is known as "the painter of black" because of his interest in the colour, "...both a colour and a non-colour. When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes it. It opens up...
, "painter of black".
Deaths
- January 22 - 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...
, Swedish painter (b. 18531853 in art-Works:*Théodore Chassériau - The Tepidarium *Gustave Courbet - The Bathers *Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience...
) - February 18 - Antonin CarlèsAntonin CarlèsJean-Antonin Carles was a French sculptor.Born in Gimont, Carlès began his studies in Marseille and then successively to the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and that of Paris. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and Ernest-Eugène Hiolle , he won the Grand Prix de l'Exposition Universelle in 1889...
, sculptor (b. 18511851 in art-Events:*May 1 - The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace, London. Works of art on display include the Tara Brooch, handicrafts and ornaments by the Khudabadi Sindhi Swarankar, and a demonstration by makers of Bristol blue glass.-Works:...
) - February 27 - Robert HarrisRobert Harris (painter)Robert Harris was a Welsh-born Canadian painter most noted for his portrait of the Fathers of Confederation....
, painter (b. 18481848 in art-Events:*John Ruskin marries Effie Gray.*John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Works:*Herman Wilhelm Bissen – Den Danske Landsoldat*Jean-François Millet – The Winnower...
) - March 24 - Franz MetznerFranz MetznerFranz Metzner was an influential German sculptor, particularly his sculptural figures integrated into the architecture of Central European public buildings in the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Vienna Secession period...
, sculptor (b. 18701870 in art-Events:*Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet and Pissarro flee to London.*Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.-Paintings:*Henri Fantin-Latour - A Studio in the Batignolles...
) - March 25 - Wilhelm LehmbruckWilhelm LehmbruckWilhelm Lehmbruck was a German sculptor.- Biography :Born in Duisburg, he studied sculpture arts at the academy of arts in Düsseldorf and contributed to an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. From 1910–1914 he lived in Paris, where he met Modigliani, Brancusi, and Archipenko...
, German sculptor (b. 18811881 in art-Events:*The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.-Works:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium*Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio...
) - May 13 - Helen HydeHelen HydeHelen Hyde was an American etcher and engraver. She is best known for her color etching process and woodblock prints reflecting Japanese women and children characterizations.-Life:...
. etcher and engraver (b. 18681868 in art-Works:*Jean-Léon Gérôme—Death of Marshal Ney*Édouard Manet**Luncheon in the Studio **Mme. Manet at the Piano **Portrait d’Emile Zola...
) - August 9 - Ralph Albert BlakelockRalph Albert BlakelockRalph Albert Blakelock was a romanticist painter from the United States.-Biography:Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847. His father was a successful physician. Blakelock initially set out to follow in his footsteps, and in 1864 began studies at the Free Academy of the...
, American painter (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...
) - November 18 - John Dibblee CraceJohn Dibblee CraceJohn Dibblee Crace was a distinguished British interior designer who provided decorative schemes for the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy, Tyntesfield and Longleat among many other notable buildings....
, interior decorator (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:...
) - December 2 - Henry Clay FrickHenry Clay FrickHenry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel steel manufacturing concern...
, founder of the Frick CollectionFrick CollectionThe Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States.- History :It is housed in the former Henry Clay Frick House, which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914. John Russell Pope altered and enlarged the building in the early 1930s to adapt...
(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...
) - December 3 - Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
, French Impressionist painter (b. 18411841 in art-Events:*American artist John G. Rand invents the collapsible zinc oil paint tube, marketed by Winsor & Newton of London.*John Ruskin publishes The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.-Births:...
) - December 18 - James Coutts MichieJames Coutts MichieJames Coutts Michie Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy was a Scottish painter who specialised in landscapes and portraits....
, painter b. 18591859 in art-Events:* April 26 - William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden.* Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors....
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