1919 in art
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Events from the year 1919 in art.
Events
- JanuaryâJune â Paris Peace Conference at Versailles; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noël Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
- April 15 â Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence, loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
- April 25 â The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius.
- December â The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
- Seven and Five Society established in London.
- Piet Mondrian, in Paris, begins painting his grid-based compositions (Neo-Plasticism).
- The first bronze castings from Degas sculptures are made, posthumously.
- Musée Rodin opens in Paris at the Hôtel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon.
- Chaïm Soutine first visits Céret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes.
- Les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.
Works
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- Norman G. Arnold â The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917
- Max Beckmann â The Night
- George Bellows â Tennis at Newport
- David Bomberg â Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi
- John Arnesby Brown â The Line of the Plough
- Sydney Carline
- Harry Clarke â illustrations to Tales of Mystery & Imagination
- Dorothy Coke â War Allotments in a London Suburb
- Philip Connard
- Leonard Crunelle â Statue of Richard J. Oglesby
- Evelyn De Morgan â The Gilded Cage
- Marcel Duchamp â L.H.O.O.Q.
- Aleksandra Ekster â City at Night
- Jacob Epstein â Sergeant D. F. Hunter VC, 1/5 Highland Light Infantry (bronze bust)
- Max Ernst
- Aquis Submersus
- Trophy, Hypertrophied (line-block printing and drawing)
- Luke Fildes â Paul Fildes
- Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven â Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (sculpture of found objects)
- Colin Gill
- Evening, After a Push
- Heavy Artillery
- Observation of Fire
- Eileen Gray â "Dragons" armchair
- Elioth Gruner â Spring Frost
- Childe Hassam â The Avenue in the Rain
- Hannah Höch â Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands ("Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany"; collage)
- Augustus John â Marchesa Casati
- Henry Lamb â Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment
- Fernand Léger
- The City
- The Railway Crossing
- Ivor Lewis â Timothy Eaton statues
- Wyndham Lewis â A Battery Shelled
- David Low â Strange, I seem to hear a child weeping (political cartoon)
- Hermon Atkins MacNeil â Statue of Ezra Cornell
- Albert Marquet â La femme blonde (Femme blonde sur un fond de châle espagnol)
- Henri Matisse â Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes")
- Claude Monet â paintings in Water Lilies series
- Edvard Munch â Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu
- Paul Nash â The Menin Road
- C. R. W. Nevinson â The Harvest of Battle
- Georgia O'Keeffe â Red and Orange Streak
- Sir William Orpen
- Pablo Picasso
- John Singer Sargent â Gassed
- Zinaida Serebriakova â House of Cards
- Charles Sims â The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916
- Stanley Spencer â Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916
- Edward Wadsworth â Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool
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Births
January to June
- January 5 â Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
- January 9 â Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
- January 19 â Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
- January 22 â John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
- January 24 â William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
- March 23 â Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
- April 9 â Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
- April 24 â César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
- May 3 â John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
- May 9 â Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
- May 27 â Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
- June 2 â Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
- June 7 â Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
- June 18 â Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)[1]
- June 21 â Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)
July to December
- July 6 â Oswaldo GuayasamÃn, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
- July 17 â Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
- July 18 â Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
- July 31 â Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
- September 8 â Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
- September 29 â VladimÃr VaÅ¡ÃÄek, Czech painter (d. 2003)
- November 3 â Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
- December 12 â Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
- December 24 â Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)
Full date unknown
- Avni ArbaÅ, Turkish artist (d. 2003)
Deaths
- January 22 â Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
- February 18 â Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851)
- February 27 â Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)
- March 24 â Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870)
- March 25 â Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide)
- May 2 â Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855)
- May 13 â Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
- August 9 â Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
- November 18 â John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838)
- December 2 â Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
- December 3 â Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
- December 18 â James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859)
- Full date unknown â Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844)