Art year 1937
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
architecture
- April 28 : After four years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco is completed.
- June: The Art Deco style central market in Phnom Penh is completed.
- The Streamline Moderne , a late branch of the Art Deco , experienced its peak.
- Most of the Palais du Trocadéro will be demolished for the Paris World Exhibition and replaced by the Palais de Chaillot .
- The post office in Taranto , built in the typical style of Italian fascism, will be completed after two years of construction.
sculpture
Paul Klee: Revolution of the Viaduct , 1937, Hamburger Kunsthalle
- The American sculptor Alexander Calder is building a mercury fountain for the Spanish pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris to commemorate the victims of mercury mining .
painting
- after April 26th : After the air raid on Gernika , Pablo Picasso paints the painting Guernica for the world exhibition in Paris . The picture will be unveiled in the Spanish Pavilion on July 12th .
- Salvador Dalí produced the paintings The Metamorphosis of Narcissus , The Riddle of Hitler , The Invention of the Monster and Swans Reflecting Elephants , among others .
- René Magritte paints the works La Reproduction interdite , Hegel's Holidays: The Therapist and The Red Model .
- Joan Miró paints the still life with an old shoe in Paris .
- Max Ernst paints the house angel under the impression of the Spanish Civil War .
- Paul Klee painting under the influence of fascism , the revolution of the viaduct .
Museums and exhibitions
- May 8th : The Reich Exhibition of Creative People opens in Düsseldorf . In addition to “new German art”, “new German living” and “new German working” will also be presented. With the exhibition, a completely new district is being created in Düsseldorf, of which only the Nordpark remains today .
- May 24th : In the course of the world exhibition , the Palais de Tokyo on the right bank of the Seine in Paris is inaugurated by the French President Albert Lebrun as a museum of modern art.
Adolf Hitler during his speech at the opening of the 1st Great German Art Exhibition
- July 18 : The House of German Art , designed by Paul Ludwig Troost and realized by his widow Gerdy Troost with the help of Leonhard Gall , opens in Munich . The Great German Art Exhibition shown therein is designed as a sales exhibition and is representative of art under National Socialism .
- July 19 : The National Socialist propaganda exhibition Degenerate Art opens in Munich. It lasts until November and will then be shown as a traveling exhibition in several cities.
- Some works from the exhibition "Degenerate Art"
The Tower of the Blue Horses by Franz Marc , 1913
Three women by Otto Mueller , 1915
Swamp legend by Paul Klee , 1919
Ecce Homo by Lovis Corinth , 1925
- The Doerner Institute for the care of the holdings of the Bavarian State Painting Collections is founded.
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is donated by the American art patron Solomon R. Guggenheim and the German painter Hilla von Rebay .
Awards ceremonies
- January 30th : As a reaction to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Carl von Ossietzky , Adolf Hitler donates the German National Prize for Art and Science . At the same time, all Germans are forbidden to accept a Nobel Prize “for all future” . Gerdy Troost's draft documents will be presented on December 7th . The first prize winners will be announced three months earlier, on September 7th .
Others
- Taller de Grafica Popular is founded in Mexico , an association of international artists.
Born
January to March
- January 14th : Horst Becking , German painter
- January 16 : Klaus Ensikat , German graphic artist and illustrator
- January 18 : Hans Hödl , Austrian mountaineer and photographer
- January 22nd : Ludwig Rotthowe , German photographer († 2017 )
- January 24th : Wilfried Wiegand , German journalist and art historian
- January 25 : Karsten Harries , German-American philosopher and art theorist
- January 29 : Gerald Ferguson , American-Canadian painter and conceptual artist († 2009 )
- February 5 : Joachim Schmettau , German sculptor
- February 11 : Norbert Werner , German art historian († 2019 )
- February 15 : Gretel Stadler , German artist
- February 23 : Tamis Wever , Dutch painter and theologian († 2004 )
- February 26th : Eduardo Arroyo , Spanish painter, graphic artist, set designer and writer († 2018 )
- March 2nd : Melchior Frommel , German visual artist
- March 3 : Eduard Arkadjewitsch Steinberg , Russian-Soviet painter († 2012 )
- March 3 : Peter Sylvester , German painter and graphic artist († 2007 )
- March 5 : Kamran Diba , Iranian architect and city planner
- March 9 : Peter Vogel , German object artist († 2017 )
- March 15 : Niele Toroni , Swiss painter
- March 25 : Ulf Zimmermann , German architect
- March 29 : Christian Tümpel , German art historian († 2009 )
April to June
- April 6 : Richard Heß , German artist († 2017 )
- April 10 : Reinhard Liess , German art historian
- April 10 : Heiner Zametzer , German cultural historian and cultural scientist († 2006 )
- April 15 : Hans Baschang , German painter, draftsman and sculptor († 2017 )
- April 18 : Barbara Bredow , German artist
- April 18 : Tim Scott , British sculptor
- April 19 : Otto Weisser , Swiss photographer
- April 21 : Jorge La Guardia , Spanish artist
- April 24 : Francis Bertrand , Belgian comic artist († 1994 )
- April 29 : Hiromi Akiyama , Japanese sculptor († 2012 )
- May 2nd : Thomas Billhardt , German photographer and publicist
- May 2 : Manfred Hermann , German Roman Catholic pastor and art historian († 2011 )
- May 7 : Marco Augusto Quiroa , Guatemalan painter and writer († 2004 )
- May 8 : Robert Adams , American photographer
- May 13 : Gottfried Jäger , German photographer and photo theorist
- May 18 : Peter Herrmann , German painter
- June 8th : Josua Reichert , German printer, typographer, graphic artist and author
- June 23 : Max Uhlig , German painter
- June 25th : Guillaume Lo A Njoe , Dutch artist of Surinamese descent
- June 30 : Hiltrud Kier , art historian, Cologne city curator (monument conservator) and general director of the museums of the city of Cologne
- June 30th : Josep Costa Sobrepera , Spanish painter
July to September
- July 4th : Hermann Albert , German painter
- July 4th : Hanns HF Schmidt , German writer, composer and painter
- July 8 : Shinji Nagashima , Japanese manga artist († 2005 )
- July 9 : David Hockney , British painter, printmaker, set designer and photographer
- July 20 : Peter Kulka , German architect
- July 24th : Bruno Gronen , German light artist
- July 24th : Quinlan Terry , British architect
- July 26 : Hélio Oiticica , Brazilian artist († 1980 )
- July 28 : Ursula Stock , German sculptor, painter and draftsman
- August 3 : Klaus Peter Cadsky , German-Swiss cartoonist († 2011 )
- August 27 : Helmut Otto , German painter († 2012 )
- August 29 : Dieter Kalenbach , German comic artist
- September 1st : Dolores Hoffmann , German-Estonian glass painter and restorer
- September 1st : Allen Jones , British Pop Art artist
- September 11 : Leif Frimann Anisdahl , Norwegian graphic designer and postage stamp artist
- September 14th : Renzo Piano , Italian architect
- September 30 : Johannes Grützke , German painter, draftsman and printmaker († 2017 )
October to December
- October 12 : Martin Warnke , German art historian († 2019 )
- October 17th : Josep Vallribera , Catalan artist
- October 21 : William Wiley , American painter, printmaker, conceptual artist, and draftsman
- October 24th : Dirk Alvermann , German photographer, filmmaker and writer
- October 27 : Auke de Vries , Dutch sculptor and graphic artist
- October 31 : Yoshiharu Tsuge , Japanese manga artist
- November 3 : FK Waechter , German draftsman and writer, theater and film director († 2005 )
- November 5th : Hervé Télémaque , French-Haitian painter and graphic artist
- November 8 : Alexander Tzonis , Greek architectural theorist and critic
- November 9 : Stephan Boeder , German graphic artist and painter († 2018 )
- November 15 : Edmund Kieselbach , German painter, graphic artist, sound and installation artist († 2006 )
- December 5th : Gerhard Trumler , Austrian photographer
- December 10 : Peter Schmidt , German designer
- December 13 : Paul Maar , German children's author, illustrator, screenwriter and playwright
- December 13 : Yvan Pestalozzi , Swiss iron sculptor
- December 27th : Natascha Ungeheuer , German painter
- December 29 : Michael Adams , British painter
Exact date of birth unknown
- Peter Graf , German painter
- Seiji Kimoto , Japanese-German sculptor and calligrapher
- Nils-Udo Laas , German visual artist
- Reinhold Wittig , German geologist, artist and game designer
- Ann Wolff , Swedish artist
- Hossein Zenderoudi , Iranian painter and sculptor
- Ilias Zengelis , Greek architect
Died
- February 14 : Emma Budge , German-American art collector, donor and patron (* 1852 )
- March 2 : Fritz Witte , German theologian, priest and art historian (* 1876 )
- March 7th : Waldemar Titzenthaler , German photographer (* 1869 )
- March 9 : Alfred Flechtheim , German art dealer, art collector, publicist and publisher (* 1878 )
- March 16 : Léopold-Émile Reutlinger , German-French photographer (* 1863 )
- March 24th : Annemarie Heise , German painter and graphic artist (* 1886 )
- March 31 : Djo-Bourgeois , French architect and Art Deco artist (* 1898 )
- April 11th : Luigi Brizzolara , Italian sculptor (* 1868 )
- April 28 : Paul Sültenfuß , German architect (* 1872 )
- May 1 : Karl Hanns Taeger , German painter (* 1856 )
- July 4th : Josef Dirnberger , Austrian sculptor and politician (* 1872 )
- July 7 : Walter Martens , German architect (* 1860 )
- July 13 : Victor Laloux , French architect (* 1850 )
- July 26 : Gerta Taro , German photographer (* 1910 )
- August 11 : Richard König , German sculptor (* 1863 )
- August 28 : Frederick Burr Opper , American comic book artist and illustrator (* 1857 )
- September 5 : Carlo Pellegrini , Italian painter, draftsman and illustrator (* 1866 )
- September 22nd : Paul Peterich , German sculptor (* 1864 )
- November 14th : Carl Duxa , Austrian painter (* 1871 )
- November 21 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter (* 1857 )
- December 8 : Pawel Alexandrovich Florensky , Russian art scholar, religious philosopher, theologian and mathematician, victim of the Stalinist purges (* 1882 )
- December 22nd : Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland , British art patron and artist (* 1856 )
- December 31 : Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg , German history and genre painter, art historian and museum director (* 1856 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1937 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
