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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 15
– Publication in England of
W. Somerset Maugham
's novel
The Moon and Sixpence
, loosely based on the life of
Paul Gauguin
.
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
).
The first bronze castings from
Degas
sculptures are made, posthumously.
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
.
Works
John Singer Sargent
–
Gassed
See also:
Category:1919 sculptures
and
Category:1919 paintings
Norman G. Arnold
–
The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917
Max Beckmann
–
The Night
George Bellows
–
Tennis at Newport
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
–
Sergeant 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
Childe Hassam
–
The Avenue in the Rain
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
Georgia O'Keeffe
–
Red and Orange Streak
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
)
[
1
]
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
↑
"The most loved artist in B.C., Gordon Smith, turns 100
|
Vancouver Sun"
. 2019-06-17.
Archived
from the original on 2019-06-22
. Retrieved
2019-12-23
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