Events
- January 16 (OS) – Ilya Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, is slashed.
- January 19 – Lovis Corinth's retrospective opens at the Munich Secession galleries. [1] This year the "New Munich Secession" splits from the Munich Secession.
- End of January – Franz Marc's Collection II opens at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich. [1] This is followed at the gallery in February by the first major retrospective of Picasso's work.
- February–March – English painter Olive Hockin is implicated in suffragette attacks. [2]
- February 17 – The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- March 10 – French sculptor Camille Claudel is committed by her family to a psychiatric hospital where she will remain until her death in 1943. [1]
- April – Marcel Duchamp withdraws from painting and begins working as a library assistant in the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris to be able to earn a living wage while concentrating on scholarship and working on his The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even . [1]
- May – The Paul Émile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery.
- May 27 – Die Brücke dissolved. [1]
- May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring , with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history. [3] The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel. [1]
- August–September – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island of Fehmarn; returning to Berlin he begins his series of street scenes from around the Potsdamer Platz. [1]
- September 19 – First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notably Franz Marc; Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures. [1]
- Autumn – The Neue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work of Picasso and others associated with French Modernism. [1]
- October – August Macke paints at Hilterfingen. [1]
- October 18 – Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, designed by Bruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures by Christian Behrens and Franz Metzner, is inaugurated. [4]
- December 12 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa , stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence when Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
- Generación del 13 established in Chile.
- The London Group is formed by merger of the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists; it will hold its first exhibition in March 1914.
- Target, the first exhibition of Rayonism.
- Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot in Paris, but attracts little notice at this time. [5]
- Omega Workshops established in London by Roger Fry and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles. Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.
- First observation of a chimpanzee drawing. [6]
- English connoisseur Hugh Blaker discovers and acquires the " Isleworth Mona Lisa ".
- Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques) is published in Paris.
- The Russian Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun by Mikhail Matyushin and Aleksei Kruchyonykh with stage design by Kazimir Malevich premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is for this opus that Malevich creates his first Black Square as part of his stage design. Some consider this the beginning of Malevich's Suprematist period [7]
