1912 in art

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Events

• May - The Blue Rider Almanac published in 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.
• Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du Cubisme.
• William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
• René Lalique and Maurice Marinot independently stage the first exhibitions of their glasswares.

Exhibitions

• May 25–September 30 - Third International Art Exhibition organized by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, in Cologne (Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Cöln am Aachener Tor), featuring works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and Edvard Munch.

Works

Cover of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac

See also: Category:1912 sculptures

• David Bomberg - Vision of Ezekiel
• Pierre Bonnard - St Tropez, Pier
• Paul Émile Chabas - September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• Lydia Field Emmet - Self Portrait
• Jacob Epstein - Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
• E. Phillips Fox - Nasturtiums
• Jacques Henri Lartigue - Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. (photograph)
• Fernand Léger - La Fumée (Smoke)
• Henri Matisse
  • The Conversation
  • Le Rifain assis
  • Zorah on the Terrace
• Amedeo Modigliani - Tête (sculpture)
• Piet Mondrian - Gray Tree
• Pablo Picasso
  • Still Life with Chair Caning
  • Violon et raisins
  • Violon, verre, pipe et encrier
• Egon Schiele - Portrait of Wally
• T. F. Simon - Second Hand Booksellers, Spring
• Stanley Spencer - The Nativity

Births

January to June

• January 7 - Charles Addams, United States cartoonist (d.1988)
• January 28 - Jackson Pollock, US painter (d.1956)
• 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)
• May 8 - John Deakin, English photographer (d.1972)
• June 4 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993)
• June 8 - Harry Holtzman, US artist (died 1987)
• June 11 - William Baziotes, painter (d.1963)

July to December

• August 1 - Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (d.1983)
• September 4
  • Syd Hoff, US children’s book author and cartoonist (d.2004)
  • Alexander Liberman, painter and sculptor (d.1999)
• September 5
  • Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001)
  • Frank Thomas, US animator (d.2004)
• 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, 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

• March 29 - John Gerrard Keulemans, bird illustrator (born 1842)
• April 15 - Francis Davis Millet, painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic)
• May 2 - Homer Davenport, cartoonist (born 1867)
• May 20 - Louis Hasselriis, Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844)
• June 25 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (born 1836)
• July 16 - Thomas Fitzpatrick, cartoonist (born 1860)
• November 1 - John Emms, painter (born 1844)
• November 22 - Otto Lessing, sculptor (born 1846)
• December 8 - Tony Robert-Fleury, painter (born 1865)
• December 23 - Édouard Detaille, painter
• date unknown - Henry Allan, painter