Overview of the events of 1933 in art
Overview of the events of 1933 in art
Events from the year 1933 in art .
January 12 – George Grosz emigrates from Nazi Germany to the United States .[1] February/March – Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party in Germany to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts, Berlin . April May – The mural Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera at the Rockefeller Center in New York is covered up because it contains a portrait of Lenin . While Rivera has been working on it, he has been joined in the United States by Frieda Kahlo who begins her painting My Dress Hangs There . June 12 – Paul Nash , in a letter to The Times of London, announces formation of the group Unit One by young British artists to promote modernism in Britain .[3] July – New Midland Hotel, Morecambe , on the Lancashire coast of England, designed by Oliver Hill , is opened incorporating sculpture by Eric Gill and murals by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden .[4] September/October – "Henri Cartier-Bresson and an Exhibition of Anti-Graphic Photography" staged at Julien Levy 's gallery in New York City . September – Artists Union formed in the United States as the Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group. December 12 – Scholars of the Warburg Institute in Hamburg resolve to relocate from Nazi Germany to London.[5] Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice . Hans Bellmer produces his first Doll sculpture. Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping are divorced; Hepworth is already in a relationship with Ben Nicholson . Kenneth Clark appointed Director of the National Gallery, London , at age 30, taking up his post in January 1934. Jacob Epstein – Bust of Albert Einstein January to June [ edit ] February 8 – Richard Allen , British abstract minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999 ) February 18 – Yoko Ono , Japanese -born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician February 22 – Joseph Raffael , painter (d. 2021 ) February 27 March 4 – John W. Mills , English sculptor March 10 – Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara , Palestinian artist (d. 2020 )[6] March 17 – Stass Paraskos , Greek Cypriot painter (d. 2014 ) April 1 – Dan Flavin , American minimalist artist (d. 1996 ) April 9 – René Burri , Swiss photographer (d. 2014) April 15 – David Hamilton , English photographer (d. 2016 ) April 23 – Roger Wittevrongel , Belgian artist April 29 – Alison Knowles , American Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker June 11 – Harald Szeemann , Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005 ) June 12 – Eddie Adams , American Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer (d. 2004 ) June 23 July to December [ edit ] 8 July – Jeff Nuttall , English poet , publisher, actor , painter and sculptor (d. 2004 ) 18 July – Cécile Guillame , first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004 ) 21 July – Laila Pullinen , Finnish sculptor (d. 2015 ) 18 August – Michael Baxandall , Welsh art historian (d. 2008 ) August 29 – Sorel Etrog , Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014 ) September 18 – Mark di Suvero , Chinese-born Italian American abstract expressionist sculptor September 30 – Ilya Kabakov , Soviet-born conceptual artist (d. 2023 ) October 9 – Bill Tidy , British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2023 ) October 28 October 29 – Sydney Ball , Australian abstract painter (d. 2017 ) November 8 – Lothar Fischer , German sculptor (d. 2004 ) November 18 November 29 – James Rosenquist , American painter and muralist (d. 2017 ) November 30 – Sam Gilliam , American painter (d. 2022 ) December 14 – Bapu , Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014 ) Full date of birth unknown [ edit ] January 10 – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh , Scottish designer (b. 1865 ) January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany , American stained glass artist (b. 1848 ) February 3 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart , Duchesse d'Uzès, French patron and sculptor (b. 1847 ) February 22 – Archibald Knox , Manx designer (b. 1864 ) February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry , American Impressionist painter (b. 1848 ) March 9 – Joakim Skovgaard , Danish painter (b. 1856 ) March 10 – Émile André , French architect and designer (b. 1871 ) April 16 – Harold Peto , English architect and garden designer (b. 1854 ) May 6 – François Pompon , French sculptor (b. 1856 ) May 25 – James E. Kelly , American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855 ) June 14 – Hans Prinzhorn , German art historian (b. 1886 ) August 5 – Charles Harold Davis , American landscape painter (b. 1856 ) August 8 – Adolf Loos , Austrian Modernist architect (b. 1870 ) September 27 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf , American portrait photographer (b. 1869 ) October 2 – Elizabeth Thompson , British painter (b. 1846 ) October 24 – Annie Swynnerton , English painter (b. 1844 ) October 26 – José Malhoa , Portuguese painter (b. 1855 ) October 29 – George Luks , American realist painter (b. 1867 ) November 12 – F. Holland Day , American photographer (b. 1864 ) November 14 – Thomas Hayton Mawson , English garden designer (b. 1861 ) November 15 – Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann , French furniture designer (b. 1879 ) November 19 – Louise Jopling , English painter (b. 1843 ) December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague , British theatre designer (b. 1863 ) date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre , English painter (b. 1844 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]