Overview of the events of 1933 in art
Events from the year 1933 in art .
Events
January 12 – George Grosz emigrates from Nazi Germany to the United States .[ 1] February/March – Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party in Germany to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts, Berlin .
April
May – The mural Man at the Crossroads 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 Frieda Kahlo who begins her painting My Dress Hangs There
June 12 – Paul Nash , in a letter to The Times modernism in Britain .[ 3] July – 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 – "Henri Cartier-Bresson and an Exhibition of Anti-Graphic Photography" staged at Julien Levy 's gallery in New York City .
September – Artists Union formed in the United States as the Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group.
December 12 – 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.
Works
Jacob Epstein – Bust of Albert Einstein
Awards
Births
January to June
February 8 – Richard Allen , British abstract minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999 )February 18 – Yoko Ono , Japanese -born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musicianFebruary 22 – Joseph Raffael , painter (d. 2021 )February 27
March 4 – John W. Mills , English sculptorMarch 10 – Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara , Palestinian artist (d. 2020 )[ 6] March 17 – Stass Paraskos , Greek Cypriot painter (d. 2014 )April 1 – Dan Flavin , American minimalist artist (d. 1996 )April 9 – René Burri , Swiss photographer (d. 2014)April 15 – David Hamilton , English photographer (d. 2016 )April 23 – Roger Wittevrongel , Belgian artistApril 29 – Alison Knowles , American Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmakerJune 11 – Harald Szeemann , Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005 )June 12 – Eddie Adams , American Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer (d. 2004 )June 23
July to December
8 July – Jeff Nuttall , English poet , publisher, actor , painter and sculptor (d. 2004 )18 July – Cécile Guillame , first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004 )21 July – Laila Pullinen , Finnish sculptor (d. 2015 )18 August – Michael Baxandall , Welsh art historian (d. 2008 )August 29 – Sorel Etrog , Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014 )September 18 – Mark di Suvero , Chinese-born Italian American abstract expressionist sculptorSeptember 30 – Ilya Kabakov , Soviet-born conceptual artist (d. 2023 )October 9 – Bill Tidy , British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2023 )October 28
October 29 – Sydney Ball , Australian abstract painter (d. 2017 )November 8 – Lothar Fischer , German sculptor (d. 2004 )November 18
November 29 – James Rosenquist , American painter and muralist (d. 2017 )November 30 – Sam Gilliam , American painter (d. 2022 )December 14 – Bapu , Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014 )
Full date of birth unknown
Deaths
January 10 – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh , Scottish designer (b. 1865 )January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany , American stained glass artist (b. 1848 )February 3 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart , Duchesse d'Uzès, French patron and sculptor (b. 1847 )February 22 – Archibald Knox , Manx designer (b. 1864 )February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry , American Impressionist painter (b. 1848 )March 9 – Joakim Skovgaard , Danish painter (b. 1856 )March 10 – Émile André , French architect and designer (b. 1871 )April 16 – Harold Peto , English architect and garden designer (b. 1854 )May 6 – François Pompon , French sculptor (b. 1856 )May 25 – James E. Kelly , American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855 )June 14 – Hans Prinzhorn , German art historian (b. 1886 )August 5 – Charles Harold Davis , American landscape painter (b. 1856 )August 8 – Adolf Loos , Austrian Modernist architect (b. 1870 )September 27 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf , American portrait photographer (b. 1869 )October 2 – Elizabeth Thompson , British painter (b. 1846 )October 24 – Annie Swynnerton , English painter (b. 1844 )October 26 – José Malhoa , Portuguese painter (b. 1855 )October 29 – George Luks , American realist painter (b. 1867 )November 12 – F. Holland Day , American photographer (b. 1864 )November 14 – Thomas Hayton Mawson , English garden designer (b. 1861 )November 15 – Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann , French furniture designer (b. 1879 )November 19 – Louise Jopling , English painter (b. 1843 )December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague , British theatre designer (b. 1863 )date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre , English painter (b. 1844 )
See also
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