1991 In Art

Events from the year 1991 in art.

Events

*14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
* 25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
*9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened.
*September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the ''Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen''.

Publications

*The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) - ''Watercolours''.
*Eric Hebborn, ''Drawn to Trouble''

Exhibitions

*February 6 until May 6 - ''Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise'' at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
*December 13 until February 2, 1992 - Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Dance

*May – First performance of '' Candoco Dance Company''

Awards

*John Moores Painting Prize - Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son"
*Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor

Works

*''Las niñas en la alborada'' – Félix Arauz
*" The Umbrellas" (simultaneous sculptural instillations in California, U.S.A and Japan) - Christo and Jeanne Claude
*'' ''Chain Reaction'' (sculpture, Santa Monica, California) – Paul Conrad
*''Field'' (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony Gormley
*''Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding'' – Damien Hirst
*''The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'' – Damien Hirst
*''Capitalism'' (sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry Kirkland
*'' Guardians of the Gate'' (bronze, San Francisco) – Miles Metzger
*''Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View'' (installation) – Cornelia Parker
*''Self'' (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc Quinn
*''Host Analog'' (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) – Buster Simpson
*''Cascade Charley'' (fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall

Births

* Hannah Levy, American sculptor
*Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist.

Deaths

January to June

* 3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b. 1898).
* 11 January – Charles Mozley, British artist and art teacher (b. 1914)
*7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b. 1927).
*13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900).
*15 March – Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter (b. 1928).
*29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928).
*10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902).

July to December

* 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915).
*3 August – Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b. 1922).
*30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925).
*5 September
**Alexander Pushnin, Russian painter and art educator (b. 1921).
**Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist (b. 1901).
* 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910).
*18 September - Leland Bell, American painter (b. 1922).
* 24 September – Dr. Seuss).
*8 October – David Budd, American abstract painter (b. 1927)
*27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
*7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920).
*11 November – Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist (b. 1915).
*18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b. 1904).
*21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter (b. 1904).
*8 December - Bernice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898).
*9 December – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927).
*10 December – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).
*12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter (b. 1909).

See also

* 1991 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

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Years of the 20th century in art
1990s in art