1929 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• January 10 - First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.
• August 21 - Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo in a civil ceremony, in the town hall at Coyoacán.
• October - La galerie Goemans opens in Paris with a Surrealist exhibition featuring Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte.
• The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• Musashino Art University
• The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
• An exhibit, "Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh" at the new Museum of Modern Art in New York City attracts 47,000 visitors.
• Curtis Moffat opens a gallery at 4 Fitzroy Square in London.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - W A Holman, KC
• Laura Knight made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Works

• Prudence Heward - Girl on a Hill
• Edward Hopper - Chop Suey
• Tamara de Lempicka - The Musician
• Francis Picabia - Hera
• Pablo Picasso - Nude in an Armchair (Musée Picasso, Paris)
• December 1 - Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its new headquarters building at 55 Broadway designed by Charles Holden, incorporating sculptures by Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill and Henry Moore.

See also: Category:1929 paintings

Births

January to June

• 2 January - Anton Lehmden, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism
• 8 January - Poul Kjærholm, designer (d.1980)
• 26 January - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist
• 28 January - Claes Oldenburg, sculptor
• 9 February - Clement Meadmore Melbourne, Australia-born, American sculptor, (d.2005)
• 24 February - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (d.2005)
• 22 March - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese visual artist.
• 31 March
  • Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (d.2007)
  • Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (d.1989).
• 5 April - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (d.2008)
• 23 May - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (d.2008)
• 31 May - Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (d.1999)

July to December

• 13 July - René Laloux, French animator and film director (d.2004)
• 29 July - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (d.2007)
• 8 August - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (d.2008)
• 4 September - Anne Dunn, painter
• 21 September - Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d.2006)

Deaths

• January 12 - Arthur Diehl, landscape painter (b. 1870)
• January 18 - Maurice Bouchor, poet and sculptor (b. 1855)
• March 1 - Vincenzo Gemito, sculptor (b. 1852)
• April 22 - Henry Lerolle, painter and arts patron (b. 1848)
• May 5 - Charles Grafly, sculptor (b. 1862)
• May 9 - Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)
• June 13 - Margaret Forrest, art collector (b. 1844)
• July 3 - Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, painter (b. 1852)
• July 12 - Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865)
• July 28 - Allen Hutchinson, sculptor (b. 1855)
• August 9 - Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (b. 1858)
• October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
• date unknown - Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (b. 1865)

See Also

• 1929 in fine arts of the Soviet Union