1906 in art
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Events from the year 1906 in art.
Events
- SeptemberâOctober â First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
- Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
- Hilma af Klint begins painting abstract art, including the first of her Primordial Chaos series.
- Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris.
- Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris.
- Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris.
- Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.
- Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
- Dritte Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung Dresden (third German arts and crafts exhibition) took place in Dresden from May 12 to October 31
Works
- Umberto Boccioni â Self-portrait
- Antoine Bourdelle â The Fruit (sculpture)
- Olga BoznaÅska â Portrait of a Lady in a White Hat
- Paul Cézanne â The Gardener Vallier
- Robert Delaunay â L'homme à la tulipe (Portrait de Jean Metzinger)
- André Derain
- Charing Cross Bridge, London
- The Pool of London
- Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter
- J. W. Godward
- Drusilla
- Nerissa
- The Tambourine Girl (two versions)
- Wilhelm Hammershoi â Interior
- William Le Baron Jenney and Charles Mulligan â Illinois Memorial
- Robert Henri â El Matador (Felix Asiego)[1]
- Ishibashi Kazunori â Lady Reading Poetry
- Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson â The Hiker (statue)
- Peder Severin Krøyer â Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
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- Albert Marquet
- Henri Matisse
- Willard Metcalf â May Night
- Jean Metzinger
- Coucher de soleil no. 1
- Femme au Chapeau
- La danse (Bacchante)
- Portrait de Robert Delaunay
- Paula Modersohn-Becker â Self-portrait
- Claude Monet â Water Lilies
- Edvard Munch
- Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Self-portrait with a bottle
- Mikhail Nesterov
- Portrait of E. P. Nesterov
- Portrait of Olga Nesterova (Woman in a Riding Habit)
- Maxfield Parrish â Old King Cole and his Fiddlers Three (mural at St. Regis Hotel, New York City)
- Pablo Picasso
- Boy Leading a Horse
- Head of a Young Woman
- Portrait of Gertrude Stein
- Self-Portrait with Palette
- Niko Pirosmani â Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
- Pierre Auguest Renoir
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- Medardo Rosso â Ecce Puer (sculpted bust)
- John Singer Sargent â Self-portrait
- Zinaida Serebriakova â Country Girl
- Walter Sickert â La Hollandaise
- Franz von Stuck â Salome
- Albert Chevallier Tayler â Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
- Douglas Tilden â California Volunteers (sculpture, San Francisco)
- Ville Vallgren â Havis Amanda (bronze)
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Births
January to June
- January 2 â Hans Mertens, German painter (died 1944)
- January 3 â Ãscar DomÃnguez, Spanish surrealist painter (died 1957)
- January 9 â Janko BraÅ¡iÄ, Serbian painter (died 1994)
- January 13 â Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter (died 1965)
- February 28 â Percy Shakespeare, English painter (died 1943)
- March 2 â Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuk artist (died 1985)
- March 8 â Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer (died 1978)
- March 9 â David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor (died 1965)
- March 26 â Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer (died 1989)
- March 27 â Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer (died 1992)
- April 11 â Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States (died 2005)
- April 14 â Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger (d. 1976)
- April 21 â Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian (died 2005)
- May 16 â Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist (died 1988)
- May 2 â Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer (died 1979)
- May 20 â Leon Polk Smith, American painter (died 1996)
- June 9 â James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman (died 1971)
July to December
- July 8 â Philip Johnson, American architect, art collector, curator (died 2005)
- August 12 â Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist (died 1972)
- August 14 â Horst P. Horst, German American photographer (died 1999)
- August 20 â Heinz Henghes, German sculptor (died 1975)
- August 21 â Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer (died 1995)
- September 5 â Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer (died 1978)
- October 18 â James Brooks, American painter and muralist (died 1992)
- October 24 â Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (died 1996)
- October 27 â Peter Blume, American painter (died 1992)
- November 26 â Krystyna DÄ browska, Polish sculptor and painter (died 1944)
- December 10 â Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter (died 1975)
- December 14 â Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter (died 1980)
- December 27 â Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer (died 1999)
Deaths
- January 20 â Philippe Solari, French sculptor (born 1840)
- February â Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor (born 1829)
- February 14 â Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor (born 1828)
- March 5 â Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter (born 1877)
- March 17 â Thomas Dalziel, English engraver (born 1823)
- March 27 â Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter (born 1849)
- March 19 â Ãtienne Carjat, French portraitist (born 1828)
- March 29 â Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter (born 1877)
- April 5 â Wyke Bayliss, English painter (born 1835)
- April 14 â Walter Williams, English landscape painter (born 1834)
- April 19 â Daniel Huntington, American painter (born 1816)
- May â John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter (b. circa 1839)
- June 20 â John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist (born 1840)
- August 21 â Eugen Felix, Austrian painter (born 1836)
- August 29 â Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter (born 1828)
- October 2 â Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter (born 1848)
- October 22 â Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)[2]
- October 28 â Jean Benner, French artist (born 1836)
- November 5 â Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter (born 1847)
- December 11 â Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer (born 1841)
- November 20 â Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer (born 1836)
- December 31 â Julia Goodman, English portrait painter (born 1812)
- date unknown
- Antonio Beato, Italian-born photographer (born c.1825)
- Charles Edwin Fripp, English-born war artist (born 1854)
- Maeda GenzÅ, Japanese photographer (born 1831)
- William Linnell, British painter (born 1826)