1919 in art

none May 2021 1919 art 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. May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1919 opens at Burlington House in London 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 thumb|300px|John Singer Sargent – Gassed Category:1919 sculptures 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 Stanhope Forbes – Fitting Out, Mousehole Harbourhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/fitting-out-mousehole-harbour-23269/view_as/grid/search/2026--work_type:painting--collectionx:bradford-museums-and-galleries-139/sort_by/date_earliest/order/asc/page/21 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 Lucy Kemp-Welch – The Straw Ridehttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-straw-ride-russley-park-remount-depot-wiltshire-6544 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) https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-most-loved-artist-in-b-c-gordon-smith-turns-100 The most loved artist in B.C., Gordon Smith, turns 100 | Vancouver Sun 2019-06-17 2019-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20190622081648/https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/the-most-loved-artist-in-b-c-gordon-smith-turns-100 2019-06-22 live 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 Category:Years of the 20th century in art