1925 in art
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| List of years in art (table) |
|---|
| ... 1915 . 1916 . 1917 . 1918 . 1919 . 1920 . 1921 ... 1922 1923 1924 -1925- 1926 1927 1928 ... 1929 . 1930 . 1931 . 1932 . 1933 . 1934 . 1935 ... |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
- Stanley Spencer marries Hilda Carline.
- In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style. Le Corbusier's Pavillon d'Esprit Nouveau is so disliked by the organizers that they erect a six-meter-high fence around it.
- First Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
- The Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau.
[edit] Awards
- Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch
[edit] Works
[edit] Paintings
- George Adomeit - Down to the Harbor
- Pierre Bonnard - Nude at the Toilet Table
- Lovis Corinth - Ecce homo
- Otto Dix - Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
- Arthur Dove - The Critic
- Lyonel Feininger - Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
- Rudolf Frentz - Horsewoman
- George Grosz - Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse
- Edward Hopper - House by the Railroad
- Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow-Red-Blue
- Tamara de Lempicka - Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti)
- Joan Miró - Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence completed)
- Pablo Picasso - The Three Dancers
- Veno Pilon - Russian Woman
- Alexej von Jawlensky - Abstract Head: Desire
[edit] Sculptures
See also: Category:1925 sculptures
- Wäinö Aaltonen - Statue of Paavo Nurmi
- Josep Clarà - Serenity
- Jacob Epstein - Rima (memorial to W. H. Hudson in Hyde Park, London)
- Daniel Chester French - Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
- Alberto Giacometti - Torso
- Charles Sargeant Jagger - Royal Artillery Memorial
- Paul Manship - The Flight of Europa
- Frederick Roth - Statue of Balto, Central Park
- Francis Derwent Wood - Machine Gun Corps Memorial
[edit] Births
- 1 January - Mario Merz, Italian artist (d.2003).
- 17 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.1996).
- 12 February - Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1992).
- 4 April - Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d.2007).
- 29 April - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (d.2007).
- 16 May - Hannes Hegen, cartoonist and illustrator.
- 22 May - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d.1991).
- 23 July - Burt Glinn, American photographer (d.2008).
- 26 August - Robert Colescott, American artist (d.2009).
- 22 October - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d.2008).
- 28 October - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d.2006).
- 30 November - Lenore Jaffee, painter.
- 18 December - John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d.2007).
- date unknown
- James Bingham, Northern Irish painter.
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - George Bellows (b. 1882)
- March 1 - Ramon Pichot, mentor of Salvador Dalí
- May 2 - Jan Stursa, sculptor (b. 1880)
- July 17 - Lovis Corinth, painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
- September 25 - Charles Cottet, post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
- November 27 - Roger de la Fresnaye, painter (b. 1885)
- December 18 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)
- December 29 - Félix Vallotton, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
- John Singer Sargent, painter (b. 1856)
- date unknown - Karl Brendel, schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)
