1916 In Art

Events from the year 1916 in art.

Events

* February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's ''Holländische Meierei'' in Zürich; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of Dada. Those who gather here include Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp.
* February 9 : 6.00 p.m. – Tristan Tzara "founds" Dada (according to Hans Arp).
* March 1 – Liljevalchs konsthall inaugurated in Stockholm.
* May 20 – ''Boy with Baby Carriage'' is Norman Rockwell's first cover for '' The Saturday Evening Post''.
* May – Muirhead Bone recruited as a war artist by the British War Propaganda Bureau. At the end of the year, his album of drawings ''The Western Front'' begins publication.
* June 16 – Cleveland Museum of Art opens in the United States.
* July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich.
* Summer – Paul Strand experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at Twin Lakes (Connecticut).
* August 31 – Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover, Germany.
* September 19 – Edvard Munch's paintings for the ''Aula'' (festival hall) of '' Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania'', are inaugurated.
* September 26 – C. R. W. Nevinson's first major single-artist exhibition opens in London.
* November – John Nash arrives with the Artists Rifles in France.
* Vanessa Bell's first single-artist exhibition is staged at Omega Workshops in London.
* Provincial Fine Arts Museum completed in Córdoba, Argentina.
* Gilbert Cannan publishes his novel ''Mendel: a story of youth'', based on the lives of those in his artistic circle of friends with a young Mark Gertler as the central figure, together with Dora Carrington, Christopher R. W. Nevinson and John Currie.
* Ezra Pound publishes ''Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir''.

Works

* Paul Wayland Bartlett – ''Apotheosis of Democracy'' ( pediment sculpture on United States Capitol)
* Vanessa Bell –
Nude with Poppies
'
* Umberto Boccioni – '' Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni''
* Constantin Brâncuși – '' Princess X'' (sculpture)
* Frank Brangwyn – Mosaic for apse of St Aidan's Church, Leeds, England
* George Clausen – '' Youth Mourning''
* Giorgio de Chirico
** ''The Disquieting Muses''
** ''The Melancholy of Departure''
** ''Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits''
* Marcel Duchamp – '' Apolinère Enameled'' ''(approximate date)''
* Jacob Epstein –
The Tin Hat
' (bronze head)
* Abel Faivre – ''On les aura!'' (recruiting poster)
* Paul Gustav Fischer – '' Sunbathing in the Dunes''
* Mark Gertler
** '' Gilbert Cannan at his Mill''
** ''Merry-Go-Round''
* J. W. Godward
** ''Ancient Pastimes''
** ''By The Blue Ionian Sea''
** ''Lesbia With Her Sparrow''
* George Grosz – ''Suicide''
* Richard Jack –
The Return to the Front: Victoria Railway Station
'
* Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – '' Königstein Station''
* Laura Knight – ''Spring'' (original version)
* Boris Kustodiev
** ''Fontanka''
** '' Shrovetide'' (Масленица)

* Alfred Laliberté – '' Les petits Baigneurs'' (bronze, Montreal)
* Fernand Léger – '' Soldier with a Pipe''
* Wilhelm Lehmbruck – '' The Fallen'' (sculpture)
* Kazimir Malevich – ''Suprematist Composition''
* Edward Middleton Manigault
** '' Still Life with Lemons''
** '' Vorticist Landscape (War Impressions)'' (approximate date)
* Henri Matisse – '' The Piano Lesson''
* Jean Metzinger
** '' Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table)''
** '' Fruit and a Jug on a Table''
* Amedeo Modigliani
** portrait of Beatrice Hastings
**
Léon Indenbaum
'
** portrait of Max Jacob
** ''Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz''
** two portraits of Chaïm Soutine
** '' Reclining Nude''
* Claude Monet – paintings in '' Water Lilies'' series
** ''Nympheas'' ( Musée Marmottan Monet)
** '' Water Lilies'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* C. R. W. Nevinson
** ''Archies''
**
The Doctor
'
**
Dog-Tired
'
** '' French Troops Resting''
* Maxfield Parrish and Louis Comfort Tiffany - '' Dream Garden'' (glass mosaic) commissioned for and installed in the lobby of the Curtis Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Glyn Philpot
** '' Man in a Flying Jacket''
** '' The Skyscraper''
* Morton Livingston Schamberg –
Untitled (Mechanical Abstraction)
'
* Matthew Smith – ''Fitzroy Street Nude No. 1''
* Paul Strand (photographs)
**
Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
'
** ''White Fence''

Births

* January 23 – David Douglas Duncan, American war photographer (died 2018)
* April 11 – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (died 2004)
* April 20 – Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (died 1971)
* April 26 – Eyvind Earle, American illustrator and Disney artist (died 2000)
* June 24 – Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (died 2017)
* July 25 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (died 2001)
* September 29 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (died 1995)
* October 18 – Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (died 1995)
* November 3 – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (died 2004)
* November 10 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (died 2012)
* November 25 – Villu Toots, Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, paleograph and author (died 1993)
* December 7 – John G. Morris, American picture editor (died 2017)

Deaths

* January 17 – Marie Bracquemond, French Impressionist painter (born 1840)
* February 13 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (born 1864)
* March 4 – Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (born 1880) (killed in action during Battle of Verdun)
* June 25 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor and teacher (born 1844)
* June 29 – Georges Lacombe, French artist (born 1868)
* July 6 – Odilon Redon, French Symbolist painter and graphic artist (born 1840)
* July 29 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist (born 1825)
* August 17 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor (born 1882) (died following a fall during cavalry training)
* August 23 – Jean-Paul Aubé, French sculptor (born 1837)
* August 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter of the Barbizon school (born 1819)
* October 25 – William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter (born 1849)
* December 13 – Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter (born 1845)
* ''date unknown''
** Wu Shixian, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing dynasty (born ''unknown'')
** Branko Radulović, Serbian painter (born 1885).

References

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