1919 In Art

Events from the year 1919 in art.

Events

* January–June – Paris Peace Conference at Versailles; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noël Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
* April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius.
* December – ''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).
* 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.
* Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham's novel '' The Moon and Sixpence'', loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.

Works

* Norman G. Arnold – '' The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917''
* Max Beckmann – '' The Night''
* David Bomberg – ''Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi''
* John Arnesby Brown –
The Line of the Plough
'
* Sydney Carline
** '' Flying Above Kirkuk, Kurdistan''
** '' Flying Over the Desert at Sunset, Mesopotamia''
** ''The Trail of War''
* Harry Clarke – illustrations to ''Tales of Mystery & Imagination''
* Dorothy Coke –
War Allotments in a London Suburb
'
* Philip Connard
** '' The Guns of HMS 'Caesar' 1919 – Off Constantinople, looking towards the Golden Horn''
**
The Port of Constantinople – The Guns of HMS 'Caesar'
'
* Leonard Crunelle – Statue of Richard J. Oglesby
* Evelyn De Morgan – '' The Gilded Cage''
* Marcel Duchamp – ''L.H.O.O.Q.''
* Aleksandra Ekster – ''City at Night''
* Jacob Epstein – ''Sergeanat D. F. Hunter VC, 1/5 Highland Light Infantry'' (bronze bust)
* Max Ernst
** ''Aquis Submersus''
** '' Trophy, Hypertrophied'' (line-block printing and drawing)
* Luke Fildes – ''Paul Fildes''
* Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – ''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp'' (sculpture of found objects)
* Colin Gill
** ''Evening, After a Push''
**
Heavy Artillery
'
**
Observation of Fire
'
* Eileen Gray – "Dragons" armchair
* Elioth Gruner – ''Spring Frost''
* Hannah Höch – '' 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 – ''Marchesa Casati''
* Henry Lamb –
Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment
'
* Fernand Léger
** '' The City''
** '' The Railway Crossing''
* Ivor Lewis – Timothy Eaton statues
* Wyndham Lewis – ''A Battery Shelled''
* David Low – ''Strange, I seem to hear a child weeping'' ( political cartoon)
* Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Statue of Ezra Cornell
* Albert Marquet – '' La femme blonde (Femme blonde sur un fond de châle espagnol)''
* Henri Matisse – ''Les plumes blanches'' ("White Plumes")
* Claude Monet – paintings in '' Water Lilies'' series
** '' Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas''
** '' Water Lilies''
* Edvard Munch – '' Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu''
* Paul Nash – ''The Menin Road''
* C. R. W. Nevinson – '' The Harvest of Battle''
* Sir William Orpen
** ''A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay''
** '' The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919''
* Pablo Picasso
**''Le Tricorne''
**''Still Life with Pitcher and Apples''
* John Singer Sargent – '' Gassed''
* Zinaida Serebriakova – '' House of Cards''
* Charles Sims – '' The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916''
* Stanley Spencer – '' Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916''
* Edward Wadsworth – ''Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool''

Births

January to June

* January 5 – Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
* January 9 – Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
* January 19 – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
* January 22 – John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
* January 24 – William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
* March 23 – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
* April 9 – Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
* April 24 – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
* May 3 – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
* May 9 – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
* May 27 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
* June 2 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
* June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
* June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)
* June 21 – Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)

July to December

* July 6 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
* July 17 – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
* July 18 – Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
* July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
* September 8 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
* September 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d. 2003)
* November 3 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
* December 12 – Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
* December 24 – Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)

Full date unknown

* Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (d. 2003)

Deaths

* January 22 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
* February 18 – Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851)
* February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)
* March 24 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870)
* March 25 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide)
* May 2 – Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855)
* May 13 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
* August 9 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
* November 18 – John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838)
* December 2 – Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
* December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
* December 18 – James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859)
* Full date unknown – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844)

References

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