Overview of the events of 1912 in art
Events from the year 1912 in art .
Events
Cover of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet , designed by Edward Gordon Craig , opens.April – Egon Schiele is arrested in Neulengbach for seducing and abducting a minor; these charges are dropped but he is imprisoned for 21 days for exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children (his studio). One of the drawings in burned in court. He paints while imprisoned.[ 1] [ 2]
May – The Blue Rider Almanac Munich , containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky 's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound
June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf , a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore , Wyndham Lewis , Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill ; it becomes a haunt of Futurists .July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , American marksman , horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter .
December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson .In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism , Du "Cubisme" André Salmon 's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme .
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire introduces the term 'Orphism ', in an address at the Salon de la Section d'Or , referring initially to the 'pure painting' of František Kupka .[ 3]
Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
Exhibitions
Works
Albert Gleizes , 1912, l'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud) Du "Cubisme" Jean Metzinger . Exhibited at Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912, Armory show , New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913Giacomo Balla – Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash [ 4] Vanessa Bell – Three portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf [ 5] George Bellows – Men of the Docks [ 6] David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel Pierre Bonnard – St Tropez, Pier Richard E. Brooks – Statue of John McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn Metropolitan Museum of Art )Jerome Connor – Bishop John Carroll [ 7] John Currie – Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron Roger de La Fresnaye – Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau [ 8] Robert Delaunay – Simultaneous Windows on the City [ 9] Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 Kenny Edson - The Romance of Pocahontas Lydia Field Emmet – Self Portrait Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery , Paris )E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums Roger Fry
Laura Gilpin – Basket of Peaches (color photograph)Albert Gleizes
J. W. Godward
Juan Gris – Verre et Bouteilles Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Boris Kustodiev
Jacques Henri Lartigue – Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. (photograph)[ 10] Fernand Léger
Wyndham Lewis – Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair J. B. Manson – Approximate date
Franz Marc
Henri Matisse
Jean Metzinger
Amedeo Modigliani – Tête Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree Mikhail Nesterov – Crucifixion Emil Nolde – The Prophet William Orpen – Portrait of Gardenia St. George With Riding Crop Pablo Picasso
Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain J. Massey Rhind – George Washington Franz Roubaud – Battle of Borodino Panorama Egon Schiele
Kathleen Scott – Charles Stewart Rolls T. F. Simon – Second Hand Booksellers, Spring Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera Stanley Spencer – The Nativity James Wehn – Statue of Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin – Lady chapel windows, St John the Divine, Richmond , LondonWilliam Barnes Wollen – The Battle of Albuera
Births
January to June
January 7 – Charles Addams , American cartoonist (d.1988 )January 28 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (d.1956 )January 29 – Constantin Kluge , Russian and French painter (d.2003 )February 7 – Russell Drysdale , Australian artist (d.1981 )March 4 – Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (d.1976 )March 22 – Agnes Martin , Canadian -US painter (d.2004 )April 14 – Robert Doisneau , French photographer (d.1994 )April 21 – Eve Arnold , née Cohen, American photographer (d.2012 )May 8 – John Deakin , English photographer (d.1972 )June 4 – Robert Jacobsen , Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993 )June 8 – Harry Holtzman , American artist (died 1987 )June 11 – William Baziotes , American painter (d.1963 )
July to December
July 10 – Isabel Nicholas , English painter and model (d.1992 )[ 12] August 1 – Rachel Baes , Belgian painter (d.1983 )August 23 – Keith Vaughan , English painter (d.1977 )August 29 – Wolfgang Suschitzky , Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer (d.2016 )September 4
September 5
September 23 – Tony Smith , US sculptor , visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980 )October 31 – Ollie Johnston , US animator (d.2008 )November 3 – Ida Kohlmeyer , US painter and sculptor (d.1997 )November 28 – Morris Louis , US painter (d.1962 )December 27 – Conroy Maddox , English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005 )
Deaths
February 14 – Mathurin Moreau , French sculptor (born 1822 )March 16 – Elizabeth Forbes , Canadian painter of the Newlyn School (born 1859 ; cancer)[ 13] March 29 – John Gerrard Keulemans , Dutch bird illustrator (born 1842 )March 31 – Robert Loftin Newman , American painter and stained-glass designer (born 1827 )April 15 – Francis Davis Millet , American painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic May 2 – Homer Davenport , American cartoonist (born 1867 )May 20 – Louis Hasselriis , Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844 )June 25 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch painter (born 1836 )June 30 – John Ford Paterson , Scottish–Australian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society (born 1851 )July 16 – Thomas Fitzpatrick , Irish cartoonist (born 1860 )August 20 – Walter Goodman , English painter, illustrator and author (born 1838 )September 15 – John Leighton , English book illustrator (born 1822 )October 11 – Nils Hansteen , Norwegian painter (born 1855 )November 1 – John Emms , English painter (born 1844)November 22 – Otto Lessing , German historicist sculptor (born 1846 )December 1 – John Moyr Smith , Scottish-born ceramic artist (born 1839 )December 8 – Tony Robert-Fleury , French painter (born 1865 )December 23 – Édouard Detaille , French painterdate unknown
References
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^ Thorpe, Vanessa (2021-02-13). "What's in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2021-02-14 . ^ Elizabeth Forbes Archived 2013-01-17 at the Wayback Machine Penlee House. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
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