1943 in art

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The year 1943 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

February 20 – The painter David Olère is arrested by French police during a round up of Jews in Seine-et-Oise and spends the rest of World War II in Nazi concentration camps.
Spring – The first exhibition of collage in the United States is shown in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
September – Retreating German troops deliberately destroy most of the collection of the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples.
September 21 – German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, in hiding in the south of France, is arrested by the Gestapo, ending the autobiographical series of 769 paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel ("Life? or Theater?: A Song-play").
November 9 – Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
December 9 – Willem de Kooning marries Elaine Fried in New York City.
Filming in the United States of a version of The Picture of Dorian Gray uses an original work by Ivan Albright as the title picture.

January 8 – Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer (d.1989)
January 20 – Jessica Rawson, English art historian
February 22 – Dragoš Kalajić, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005)
April 24 – Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
May 1 – Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (d. 2005)
May 6 – James Turrell, American installation artist
June 22 – Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
July 15 – Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist (d. 2012)
July 29 – Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
August 30 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
September 5 – Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
September 17 – Gilbert (Proesch), Italian-born artist partnering with George (Passmore)
November 11 – Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
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- Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist (d. 2004)
- Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist

January 13
- Xavier Martínez, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1869)
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (accidental carbon monoxide poisoning) (born 1889)
March 8 – Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)
March 9 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878)
March 12 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
April 13 – Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (b. 1888)
May 25 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter (on active service) (b. 1906)
June 28 – Pietro Porcelli, Italian-born Australian sculptor (b. 1872)
c. July 11 – Friedrich Adler, German-Jewish designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1878)
August 7 – Sarah Purser, Irish portrait painter and stained-glass maker (b. 1848)
August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Belarusian Jewish-born French painter (b. 1893)
August – Adolf Behrman, Polish painter (killed in Białystok Ghetto uprising) (b. 1876)
September 2 – Marsden Hartley, American Modernist painter (b. 1877)
c. October 10 – Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1917)
October 19 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (in asylum) (b. 1864)