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Events from the year 1933 in art.

Events

  • January 12 – George Grosz emigrates from Nazi Germany to the United States.
  • February/March – Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party in Germany to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
  • April
  • Closure of the Bauhaus.
  • Freddy Mayor opens a gallery in Cork Street, London, specialising in modernism.
  • May – The mural Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera at the Rockefeller Center in New York is covered up because it contains a portrait of Lenin. While Rivera has been working on it, he has been joined in the United States by Frida Kahlo who begins her painting My Dress Hangs There.
  • June 12 – Paul Nash, in a letter to The Times of London, announces formation of the group Unit One by young British artists to promote modernism in Britain.
  • July – New Midland Hotel, Morecambe, on the Lancashire coast of England, designed by Oliver Hill, is opened incorporating sculpture by Eric Gill and murals by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden.
  • September/October – "Henri Cartier-Bresson and an Exhibition of Anti-Graphic Photography" staged at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City.
  • September – Artists Union formed in the United States as the Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group.
  • December 12 – Scholars of the Warburg Institute in Hamburg resolve to relocate from Nazi Germany to London.
  • Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.
  • Hans Bellmer produces his first Doll sculpture.
  • Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping are divorced; Hepworth is already in a relationship with Ben Nicholson.
  • Kenneth Clark appointed Director of the National Gallery, London, at age 30, taking up his post in January 1934.
  • December – The NBC photomural by Margaret Bourke-White is installed at Rockefeller Center in New York. It is the largest photomural in the world at the time.

Works

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  • Jean Arp – Head and Shell (bronze)
  • Francis Bacon – Crucifixion
  • Renato Bertelli – Profilo continuo del Duce (Continuous profile of Mussolini, ceramic bust)
  • Gutzon Borglum – Statue of Harvey W. Scott (bronze, Portland, Oregon)
  • Bill Brandt – Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner (documentary photograph)
  • Tarsila do Amaral – Operarios
  • Jacob Epstein
  • Man of Aran (portrait bust of 'Tiger' King)
  • Primeval Gods / Sun God (double-sided Hoptonwood stone carving)
  • Portrait busts of Lord Beaverbrook, Prof. Albert Einstein, Robert Flaherty, John Gielgud and Dr Chaim Weizmann
  • James Gunn – Eleanor Rathbone
  • C. Paul Jennewein
  • Spirit of Justice (sculpture, Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.)
  • Western Civilization (pediment sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Frida Kahlo
  • My Dress Hangs There (Allá cuelga mi vestido)
  • Self-portrait &ndash; Very Ugly (Autorretrato – muy fea)
  • André Kertész – Distortions (photographs)
  • René Magritte
  • Elective Affinities
  • The Human Condition (first version)
  • Piet Mondrian – Composition with Yellow Lines
  • Tom Monnington – Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe
  • Hilda Rix Nicholas – The Summer House (approximate date)
  • Konstantinos Parthenis – The Apotheosis of Athanasios Diakos
  • Pablo Picasso – Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (etching)
  • Gabriel Pippet – mosaic interior decoration, Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria, Droitwich Spa, England (completed)
  • Diego Rivera
  • Detroit Industry Murals (frescoes for Detroit Institute of Arts)
  • Man at the Crossroads (mural, original version for Rockefeller Center, New York, destroyed)
  • Percy Shakespeare
  • Mephistopheles
  • A Mulatto
  • Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Professional Model
  • Reclining Nude
  • Sleep
  • John Skeaping – Horse (sculpture in mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo; later in Tate Gallery)
  • Carel Willink – The Zeppelin

Awards

  • Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler – Ambrose Pratt

Births

January to June

  • February 8 – Richard Allen, British abstract minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999)
  • February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician
  • February 22 – Joseph Raffael, painter (d. 2021)
  • February 27
  • Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d. 2000)
  • Edward Lucie-Smith, British art critic and poet
  • March 4 – John Mills, English sculptor (d. 2023)
  • March 10 – Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Palestinian artist (d. 2020)
  • March 17 – Stass Paraskos, Greek Cypriot painter (d. 2014)
  • March 29 – Roger von Gunten, Swiss-born Mexican artist and sculptor (d. 2026)
  • April 1 – Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d. 1996)
  • April 9 – René Burri, Swiss photographer (d. 2014)
  • April 15 – David Hamilton, English photographer (d. 2016)
  • April 23 – Roger Wittevrongel, Belgian artist
  • April 29 – Alison Knowles, American Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker
  • June 11 – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005)
  • June 12 – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d. 2004)
  • June 23
  • Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian object artist, action painter and art theorist
  • Hermenegildo Sábat, Uruguayan-Argentine caricaturist (d. 2018)

July to December

  • 8 July – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
  • 18 July – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004)
  • 21 July – Laila Pullinen, Finnish sculptor (d. 2015)
  • 18 August – Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d. 2008)
  • August 29 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014)
  • September 18 – Mark di Suvero, Chinese-born Italian American abstract expressionist sculptor
  • September 30 – Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-born conceptual artist (d. 2023)
  • October 9 – Bill Tidy, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2023)
  • October 12 – Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (d. 2004)
  • October 23 – Juraj Bartusz, Slovak sculptor (d. 2025)
  • October 28
  • Audrey Amiss, English artist (d. 2013)
  • Michael Noakes, English portrait painter (d. 2018)
  • October 29 – Sydney Ball, Australian abstract painter (d. 2017)
  • November 8 – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d. 2004)
  • November 18
  • Bruce Conner, American artist in experimental film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d. 2008)
  • Charlotte Moorman, American Fluxus performance artist (d. 1991)
  • November 29 – James Rosenquist, American painter and muralist (d. 2017)
  • November 30 – Sam Gilliam, American painter (d. 2022)
  • December 14 – Bapu, Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014)

Full date of birth unknown

  • John Stuart Ingle, American realist watercolorist (d. 2010)

Deaths

  • January 10 – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish designer (b. 1865)
  • January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
  • February 3 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès, French patron and sculptor (b. 1847)
  • February 22 – Archibald Knox, Manx designer (b. 1864)
  • February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
  • March 9 – Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (b. 1856)
  • March 10 – Émile André, French architect and designer (b. 1871)
  • April 16 – Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (b. 1854)
  • May 6 – François Pompon, French sculptor (b. 1856)
  • May 25 – James E. Kelly, American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
  • June 14 – Hans Prinzhorn, German art historian (b. 1886)
  • August 5 – Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (b. 1856)
  • August 8 – Adolf Loos, Austrian Modernist architect (b. 1870)
  • September 27 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, American portrait photographer (b. 1869)
  • October 2 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
  • October 24 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (b. 1844)
  • October 26 – José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (b. 1855)
  • October 29 – George Luks, American realist painter (b. 1867)
  • November 12 – F. Holland Day, American photographer (b. 1864)
  • November 14 – Thomas Hayton Mawson, English garden designer (b. 1861)
  • November 15 – Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, French furniture designer (b. 1879)
  • November 19 – Louise Jopling, English painter (b. 1843)
  • December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre designer (b. 1863)
  • date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (b. 1844)

See also

  • 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References