1934 in art

Events from the year 1934 in art.

Events

April â David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.^[1]
April 10 â The Just Judges, a panel of the Ghent Altarpiece painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert between 1430â32, is stolen from St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. In November, on his deathbed, ArsÃ¨ne Goedertier admits to the theft but most of the panel is never recovered.
August 31 â John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York.
Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.

April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.^[2]

January 3 - Yves Gaucher, Canadian artist (d. 2000)
January 4 â Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian painter and sculptor (d. 2025)
January 18 â Raymond Briggs, English illustrator (d. 2022)
February 11 â Mary Quant, English fashion designer (d. 2023)
February 27 â Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
March 1 â Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian sculptor (d. 2005)
March 7 â Gray Morrow, American comic book artist and book illustrator (d. 2001)
March 20 â Eric Hebborn, English art forger (d. 1996)
April 16 â Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
May 29 â Jef Geys, Belgian artist (d. 2018)
June 15 â Aron Tager, American-Canadian actor, voice actor and artist (d. 2019)
June 18 â Dimitris Mytaras, Greek painter (d. 2017)
June 20 â Rius, Mexican cartoonist (d. 2017)
July 11 â Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
July 18 â Jean-Michel Sanejouand, French painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
July 24 â Lee Friedlander, American photographer
August 14 â Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
September 14 â Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017)
October 14 â Rose Wylie, English painter
December 28 â Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019)
date unknown
- Sheila Hicks, American-born textile artist
- Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)

March 23 â Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)
March 28 â Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
April 11 â John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)
June 29 â Adolf KaÅ¡par, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
July 1 â Jules Monge, French painter (b. 1855)
August 17 â Aleksandr Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)
September 1 â Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)
October 11 â M. O. Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876)
October 12 â Gertrude KÃ¤sebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)
October 17 â Adolf HÃ¶lzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
November 4 â Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)
December 4 â Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)
December 28 â Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
date unknown â Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)