1933 in art
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Events from the year 1933 in art.
Events
- January 12 â George Grosz emigrates from Nazi Germany to the United States.[1]
- February/March â Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party in Germany to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
- April
- Closure of the Bauhaus.
- Freddy Mayor opens a gallery in Cork Street, London, specialising in modernism.[2]
- May â The mural Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera at the Rockefeller Center in New York is covered up because it contains a portrait of Lenin. While Rivera has been working on it, he has been joined in the United States by Frida Kahlo who begins her painting My Dress Hangs There.
- June 12 â Paul Nash, in a letter to The Times of London, announces formation of the group Unit One by young British artists to promote modernism in Britain.[3]
- July â New Midland Hotel, Morecambe, on the Lancashire coast of England, designed by Oliver Hill, is opened incorporating sculpture by Eric Gill and murals by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden.[4]
- September/October â "Henri Cartier-Bresson and an Exhibition of Anti-Graphic Photography" staged at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City.
- September â Artists Union formed in the United States as the Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group.
- December 12 â Scholars of the Warburg Institute in Hamburg resolve to relocate from Nazi Germany to London.[5]
- Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.
- Hans Bellmer produces his first Doll sculpture.
- Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping are divorced; Hepworth is already in a relationship with Ben Nicholson.
- Kenneth Clark appointed Director of the National Gallery, London, at age 30, taking up his post in January 1934.
- December â The NBC photomural by Margaret Bourke-White is installed at Rockefeller Center in New York. It is the largest photomural in the world at the time.
Works
- Jean Arp â Head and Shell (bronze)
- Francis Bacon â Crucifixion
- Renato Bertelli â Profilo continuo del Duce (Continuous profile of Mussolini, ceramic bust)
- Gutzon Borglum â Statue of Harvey W. Scott (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
- Bill Brandt â Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner (documentary photograph)
- Tarsila do Amaral â Operarios
- Jacob Epstein
- Man of Aran (portrait bust of 'Tiger' King)
- Primeval Gods / Sun God (double-sided Hoptonwood stone carving)
- Portrait busts of Lord Beaverbrook, Prof. Albert Einstein, Robert Flaherty, John Gielgud and Dr Chaim Weizmann
- James Gunn â Eleanor Rathbone
- C. Paul Jennewein
- Spirit of Justice (sculpture, Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.)
- Western Civilization (pediment sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- Frida Kahlo
- My Dress Hangs There (Allá cuelga mi vestido)
- Self-portrait â Very Ugly (Autorretrato â muy fea)
- André Kertész â Distortions (photographs)
- René Magritte
- Elective Affinities
- The Human Condition (first version)
- Piet Mondrian â Composition with Yellow Lines
- Tom Monnington â Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe
- Hilda Rix Nicholas â The Summer House (approximate date)
- Konstantinos Parthenis â The Apotheosis of Athanasios Diakos
- Pablo Picasso â Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (etching)
- Gabriel Pippet â mosaic interior decoration, Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, Droitwich Spa, England (completed)
- Diego Rivera
- Detroit Industry Murals (frescoes for Detroit Institute of Arts)
- Man at the Crossroads (mural, original version for Rockefeller Center, New York, destroyed)
- Percy Shakespeare
- Mephistopheles
- A Mulatto
- Amrita Sher-Gil
- John Skeaping â Horse (sculpture in mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo; later in Tate Gallery)
- Carel Willink â The Zeppelin
![The Summer House](./File:Hilda_Rix_Nicholas_painting_"The_Summer_House".jpg){kind=link}
Awards
Births
January to June
- February 8 â Richard Allen, British abstract minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999)
- February 18 â Yoko Ono, Japanese-born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician
- February 22 â Joseph Raffael, painter (d. 2021)
- February 27
- Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d. 2000)
- Edward Lucie-Smith, British art critic and poet
- March 4 â John Mills, English sculptor (d. 2023)
- March 10 â Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Palestinian artist (d. 2020)[6]
- March 17 â Stass Paraskos, Greek Cypriot painter (d. 2014)
- March 29 â Roger von Gunten, Swiss-born Mexican artist and sculptor (d. 2026)
- April 1 â Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d. 1996)
- April 9 â René Burri, Swiss photographer (d. 2014)
- April 15 â David Hamilton, English photographer (d. 2016)
- April 23 â Roger Wittevrongel, Belgian artist
- April 29 â Alison Knowles, American Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker
- June 11 â Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005)
- June 12 â Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d. 2004)
- June 23
- Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian object artist, action painter and art theorist
- Hermenegildo Sábat, Uruguayan-Argentine caricaturist (d. 2018)
July to December
- 8 July â Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
- 18 July â Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004)
- 21 July â Laila Pullinen, Finnish sculptor (d. 2015)
- 18 August â Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d. 2008)
- August 29 â Sorel Etrog, Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014)
- September 18 â Mark di Suvero, Chinese-born Italian American abstract expressionist sculptor
- September 30 â Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-born conceptual artist (d. 2023)
- October 9 â Bill Tidy, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2023)
- October 12 â Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (d. 2004)
- October 23 â Juraj Bartusz, Slovak sculptor (d. 2025)
- October 28
- Audrey Amiss, English artist (d. 2013)[7]
- Michael Noakes, English portrait painter (d. 2018)[8]
- October 29 â Sydney Ball, Australian abstract painter (d. 2017)
- November 8 â Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d. 2004)
- November 18
- Bruce Conner, American artist in experimental film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d. 2008)
- Charlotte Moorman, American Fluxus performance artist (d. 1991)
- November 29 â James Rosenquist, American painter and muralist (d. 2017)
- November 30 â Sam Gilliam, American painter (d. 2022)
- December 14 â Bapu, Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014)
Full date of birth unknown
- John Stuart Ingle, American realist watercolorist (d. 2010)
Deaths
- January 10 â Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish designer (b. 1865)
- January 17 â Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
- February 3 â Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès, French patron and sculptor (b. 1847)
- February 22 â Archibald Knox, Manx designer (b. 1864)
- February 28 â Lilla Cabot Perry, American Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
- March 9 â Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (b. 1856)
- March 10 â Ãmile André, French architect and designer (b. 1871)
- April 16 â Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (b. 1854)
- May 6 â François Pompon, French sculptor (b. 1856)
- May 25 â James E. Kelly, American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
- June 14 â Hans Prinzhorn, German art historian (b. 1886)
- August 5 â Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (b. 1856)
- August 8 â Adolf Loos, Austrian Modernist architect (b. 1870)
- September 27 â Zaida Ben-Yusuf, American portrait photographer (b. 1869)
- October 2 â Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
- October 24 â Annie Swynnerton, English painter (b. 1844)
- October 26 â José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (b. 1855)
- October 29 â George Luks, American realist painter (b. 1867)
- November 12 â F. Holland Day, American photographer (b. 1864)
- November 14 â Thomas Hayton Mawson, English garden designer (b. 1861)
- November 15 â Ãmile-Jacques Ruhlmann, French furniture designer (b. 1879)
- November 19 â Louise Jopling, English painter (b. 1843)
- December 4 â W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre designer (b. 1863)
- date unknown â Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (b. 1844)