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1922 in art
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February 26, 2025
Contents
Events
Awards
Works
Births
January to June
July to December
Deaths
See also
References
Overview of the events of 1922 in art
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Events from the year
1922 in art
.
Events
February 1
–
Akron Art Institute
opens in
Ohio
.
February 10
–
17
–
Modern Art Week
(
Semana de Arte Moderna
) at the
Theatro Municipal, São Paulo
, marks the start of
Modernism
in
Brazil
.
March 5
– Release of influential German
silent
vampire film
Nosferatu
with production design by
Albin Grau
.
December 16
Gabriel Narutowicz
, sworn on
December 11
as first president of the
Second Polish Republic
, is assassinated by right-wing
modernist
painter and art critic
Eligiusz Niewiadomski
at the
Zachęta
art gallery in Warsaw.
Lady Lever Art Gallery
opens in
Port Sunlight
,
England
.
December 20
–
Antigone
by
Jean Cocteau
appears on the stage of the
Théâtre de l'Atelier
in the
Montmartre
district of
Paris
, with settings by
Pablo Picasso
, music by
Arthur Honegger
and costumes by
Gabrielle Chanel
. There are some protests by
Dadaists
.
[
1
]
Perm State Art Gallery in the Soviet Union established in a former Orthodox cathedral.
Max Beerbohm
's collection of
caricatures
,
Rossetti and His Circle
, is published in London.
[
2
]
Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza
,
court painter
to
Alfonso XIII of Spain
, is appointed director of the
Museo del Prado
in Madrid.
Painter
Annie Swynnerton
becomes the first woman elected as an Associate of the
Royal Academy of Arts
in London.
[
3
]
German
psychiatrist
Hans Prinzhorn
publishes
Bildnerei der Geisteskranken
(
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
).
Awards
Archibald Prize
:
W B McInnes
– Professor Harrison Moore
Newbery Medal
–
Rene Paul Chambellan
Works
Paul Klee
–
Twittering Machine
(
MOMA
)
See also:
Category:1922 sculptures
Max Beckmann
–
The Iron Footbridge
Alvar Cawén
–
Sokea soittoniekka (Blind Musician)
Jean Charlot
–
The Massacre of the Templo Mayor
(mural,
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
, Mexico City)
Salvador Dalí
–
Cabaret Scene
Giorgio de Chirico
–
The Prodigal Son (Il figliol prodigo)
Otto Dix
–
Lustmord
("Lust Murder", watercolor)
Lydia Field Emmet
–
Harriet Lancashire White and Her Children
Mark Gertler
–
Queen of Sheba
J. W. Godward
Contemplation
Nu Sur la Plage
Juan Gris
–
Le Pierrot
Paul Klee
–
Twittering Machine
George Washington Lambert
–
Anzac, the landing, 1915
John Lavery
–
Michael Collins (Love of Ireland)
Max Liebermann
–
Albert Einstein
L. S. Lowry
–
A Manufacturing Town
Edward McCartan
–
Dream Lady
(Eugene Field Memorial, Chicago)
Dugald Sutherland MacColl
–
On the Terrace
Sydney March
Bromley War Memorial
(London)
Lancaster Monument
(
The Angel of Death
,
East Sheen Cemetery
, London)
André Masson
–
Pedestal Table in the Studio
Joan Miró
–
The Farm
Charles Henry Niehaus
–
Orpheus with the Awkward Foot
William Orpen
–
To the Unknown British Soldier in France
[
4
]
Maxfield Parrish
–
Daybreak
Pablo Picasso
–
Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race)
Charles Sheeler
–
Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
–
Oval Composition with Abstract Motifs
Births
January to June
January 1
–
Jerry Robinson
, American illustrator (d.
2011
)
January 8
–
Jan Nieuwenhuys
, Dutch painter (d.
1986
)
January 11
–
William Turnbull
, Scottish-born
sculptor
(d.
2012
)
January 17
–
Robert De Niro, Sr.
, American
abstract expressionist
painter (d.
1993
)
January 23
–
Leon Golub
, American painter (d.
2004
)
March 3
–
Louis Maratier
, French
Post-Impressionist
artist and painter (d.
1998
)
March 10
–
Kiyoshi Yamashita
, Japanese
outsider artist
(d.
1971
)
March 27
–
Jules Olitski
, American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d.
2007
)
March 28
–
Grace Hartigan
, American
Abstract Expressionist
painter (d.
2008
)
April 22
–
Richard Diebenkorn
, American painter (d.
1993
)
April 24
–
Richard Hamilton
, English painter and
collage
artist (d.
2011
)
May 7
–
Joe O'Donnell
, American
photographer
(d.
2007
)
May 15
–
Hedi Turki
, Tunisian abstract painter (d.
2019
)
June 22
–
Bill Blass
, American
fashion designer
(d.
2002
)
July to December
July 3
–
Corneille Guillaume Beverloo
, "Corneille", Dutch painter (d.
2010
)
July 25
–
Fred Yates
, English artist (d.
2008
)
August 1
–
Paul Fitzgerald
, Australian painter (d.
2017
)
August 8
–
Rudi Gernreich
, Austrian American fashion designer (d.
1985
)
September 3
–
Steffan Danielsen
, Faroese painter (d.
1976
)
September 9
–
Pauline Baynes
, English book illustrator (d. 2008)
October 3
–
John Craxton
, English painter (d.
2009
)
October 6
–
Ljubinka Jovanović
, Serbian painter living and working in Paris and Belgrade (d.
2015
)
December 8
–
Lucian Freud
, German-born British painter and printmaker (d.
2011
)
[
5
]
December 17
–
Aart van den IJssel
, Dutch sculptor (d.
1983
)
December 31
–
Theodoros Stamos
, Greek American
abstract expressionist
painter (d.
1997
)
Deaths
January 23
–
René Beeh
, German painter and draughtsman from Alsace (b.
1886
)
February –
Algernon Graves
, English art historian (b.
1845
)
February 3
–
John Butler Yeats
, Irish painter (b.
1839
)
February 5
–
Paul Durand-Ruel
, French art dealer, patron of the Impressionists (b.
1831
)
February 19
–
Karl Isakson
, Swedish artist (b.
1878
)
March 16
–
Reinhold Lepsius
, German painter (b.
1857
)
May 15
–
Leslie Ward
("Spy"), English cartoonist (b.
1851
)
June 22
–
Étienne Terrus
, French painter (b.
1857
)
August 22
-
Thomas Brock
, English sculptor and medalist (b.
1847
)
August –
Robert Bateman
, English painter, illustrator, sculptor and architect (b. 1842)
[
6
]
September 1
–
Edmund Leighton
, English historical genre painter (b.
1852
)
September 5
–
Georgette Agutte
, French painter (b.
1867
)
September 8
–
Léon Bonnat
, French painter (b.
1833
)
October 18
–
August Gaul
, German sculptor (b.
1869
)
December 13
–
John William Godward
, English neo-Classicist painter (b.
1861
) (suicide)
December 15
– Sir
Sydney Prior Hall
, English portraitist and illustrator (b.
1842
)
date unknown
Milly Childers
, English painter (b.
1866
)
Marie-Hortense Fiquet
, French model and wife of
Paul Cézanne
(b.
1850
)
Jean Baptiste Guth
, French watercolor portraitist (b.
1855
)
See also
1922 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
References
↑
"Jean Cocteau – biography 1889-1922"
. Jean Cocteau Committee. Archived from
the original
on 2013-07-29
. Retrieved
2013-08-07
.
↑
"Rossetti and His Circle (1922)"
.
Green Art Collection
. The
New York Society Library
. Archived from
the original
on 2012-02-19
. Retrieved
2012-06-28
.
↑
"Annie Swynnerton, A.R.A"
. Royal Academy of Arts.
Archived
from the original on 2014-11-29
. Retrieved
2014-11-19
.
↑
To the Unknown British Soldier in France
↑
"Lucian Freud: Painter of Flesh", The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21, 2011. Accessed 18 February 2013
↑
"Biography of Robert Bateman"
.
Artmagick
. Archived from
the original
on 2013-02-20
. Retrieved
2013-02-18
.
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