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Overview of the events of 1913 in art
Events
Portrait of Isaak Brodsky by Ilya Repin
May 27 – Die Brücke dissolved.[ 1]
May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring , with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux , choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich , is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris , its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history.[ 3] The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio , Coco Chanel , Marcel Duchamp , Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel .[ 1]
August–September – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island of Fehmarn ; returning to Berlin he begins his series of street scenes from around the Potsdamer Platz .[ 1]
September 19 – First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notably Franz Marc ; Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures.[ 1]
Autumn – The Neue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work of Picasso and others associated with French Modernism .[ 1]
October – August Macke paints at Hilterfingen .[ 1]
October 18 – Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig , designed by Bruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures by Christian Behrens and Franz Metzner , is inaugurated.[ 4]
December 12 – Leonardo da Vinci 's Mona Lisa , stolen from the Louvre in 1911 , is located in Florence when Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
Generación del 13 established in Chile .
The London Group is formed by merger of the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists and holds its first exhibition.
Target , the first exhibition of Rayonism .
Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot in Paris , but attracts little notice at this time.[ 5]
Omega Workshops established in London by Roger Fry and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles. Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.
First observation of a chimpanzee drawing.[ 6]
Guillaume Apollinaire 's The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques ) is published in Paris.
Works
Jean Metzinger, 1912-1913, L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) , oil on canvas, 230 x 196 cm, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Franz Marc , Tierschicksale , Kunstmuseum Basel
Graphic works
Sculptures
Epstein 's Rock Drill in original form on machine base
Births
January 29 – Reuben Kadish , American artist and educator (died 1992 )
January 30 – Amrita Sher-Gil , Indian painter (died 1941 )
February 15 – William Scott , Ulster Scots painter (died 1989 )
March 12 – Max Leognany , French artist (died 1994 )
March 19 – Mary Henry , American painter (died 2009 )
March 23 – Abidin Dino , Turkish artist (died 1993 )
March 29 – Hyman Bloom , Latvian American painter (died 2009 )
April 21 – Norman Parkinson , English fashion photographer (died 1990 )
May 6 – Marianne Appel , American mural painter and puppet designer (died 1988 )
May 27 – Wols , born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, German-born painter and draughtsman (died 1951 )
July 12 – Roger Testu , French cartoonist (died 2008 )
July 22 – Robert C. Turner , American potter (died 2005 )
July 27 – Philip Guston , Canadian -born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (died 1980 )
September 1 – Ludwig Merwart , Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1979 )
September 25 – Tony O'Malley , Irish painter (died 2003 )
September 28 – Warja Honegger-Lavater , Swiss artist and illustrator (died 2007 )
October 22 – Robert Capa , born Endre Friedmann, Hungarian-born war photographer (died 1954 )
November 21 – Tomie Ohtake , Japanese-Brazilian artist (died 2015 )
December 13 – Vladimir Tretchikoff , Russian artist (died 2006 )
December 24 – Ad Reinhardt , American painter and writer (died 1967 )
Full date unknown
Deaths
January 6 – Gyula Juhász , Hungarian sculptor and engraver (born 1876 )
March 8 – Louis Saint-Gaudens , American sculptor (born 1854 )
March 13 – Félix Resurrección Hidalgo , Filipino painter (born 1855 )
April 20 – Vilhelm Bissen , Danish sculptor (born 1836 )
May 10 – Andreas Aubert , Norwegian art historian (born 1851 )
June 23 - Marc-Louis Solon , French-born ceramic artist (born 1835 )
July 10 – Mikoláš Aleš , Czech painter (born 1852 )
August 2 - George Hitchcock , American painter (born 1850 )
August 7 – Fernand Pelez , French painter (born 1843 )
September 28 – Sir Alfred East , English painter (born 1844 )
October 5 – Hans von Bartels , German painter (born 1856)
Full date unknown – Caroline Shawk Brooks , American sculptor (born 1840 )
References