Art year 1910

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Art year 1910
The Strudlhofstiege in Vienna opens.

Events

architecture

November 29th : The Strudlhofstiege in Vienna opens. Theodor Johann Jaeger from the Vienna City Planning Office provided the design for the system . The building was built from Mannersdorf limestone and is considered an important Art Nouveau building .

sculpture

The bronze statue The Arch Tensioner by Ferdinand Lepcke is unveiled in the Jan Kochanowski Park in Bydgoszcz .

painting

February 11 : Umberto Boccioni presents the manifesto of futuristic painting.
April 21 : The predominantly expressionist New Secession splits off from the Berlin Secession , which is directed by Max Liebermann . It begins its work on May 15 with the “Exhibition of Works by Those Rejected by the Berlin Secession” and is initially directed by Georg Tappert and Max Pechstein .

Works by Egon Schiele 1910
Male nude, self-portrait
Female nude
Self-portrait in a black robe
Self-portrait with a striped shirt

Self-portrait I.

The Russian painter Marianne von Werefkin paints, among other things, Self-Portrait I , with which she turns away from realism to expressionism .

Museums and exhibitions

Advertising postcard for the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1910 , by Friedrich Kallmorgen

April 23. bis 1. November : In Brussels , the World Expo is Brussels International - 1910 instead. In the fine arts section in the French pavilion, works by Claude Monet , Auguste Rodin , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse are on display. The Hotel Astoria was specially built for the world exhibition and has been a listed building ever since .
July 3 : The artist house in Nuremberg , built according to plans by Otto Seegy , opens.

July 16 to October 9 : The Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler is holding its second exhibition at the Städtisches Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. It bears the subtitle German and French New Art , which indicates the juxtaposition of Expressionism and Fauvism . On display are 242 paintings and sculptures as well as 278 handicrafts. Artists represented in the exhibition include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Max Pechstein , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Emil Nolde , Wassily Kandinsky , Alexej von Jawlensky as well as André Derain , Maurice de Vlaminck , Édouard Vuillard , Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso , who for the first time in Düsseldorf can be seen with their works. The exhibition, like the first, is mocked by the press, and the exhibitors and guests are described as incurably insane.

September 1 to 14 : The Neue Künstlervereinigung München is holding its second exhibition in the Modern Gallery Heinrich Thannhauser in the Arco-Palais in Munich. 115 works by 31 artists will be shown, including Adolf Erbslöh , Alexej Jawlensky , Wassily Kandinsky , Pablo Picasso and Marianne von Werefkin .

Poster of the 1910 exhibition using Paul Gauguin's painting Poèmes barbaren

November 8, 1910 to January 15, 1911 : The Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London , organized by Roger Fry , introduces the concept of post-impressionism . Edwardian audiences in London were shocked by the exhibition and the press published scathing reviews. In it, the organizer Fry is described as “crazy”, and Paul Cézanne's works are compared with children's doodles.

The Hungarian Society of Impressionists and Naturalists ( MIÉNK ), founded by Károly Ferenczy in 1907, is showing its last exhibition.
The Russian artist group Karo-Bube , named after the exhibition of the same name, is founded in Moscow and belongs to the Russian avant-garde .
The Kunsthaus Zürich , built according to plans by Karl Coelestin Moser , opens.

Opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Born

First half of the year

January 25 : Viljo Revell , Finnish architect († 1964 )
February 11 : Rudi Baerwind , German painter († 1982 )

March 1 : Erika Streit , Swiss painter, graphic artist and draftsman († 2011 )
March 25 : David Ludwig Bloch , German painter († 2002 )

April 13 : Wilhelm Schmied , German painter and graphic artist († 1984 )
April 29 : Fritz Kühn , German photographer, sculptor and blacksmith († 1967 )

May 1 : Roland Rainer , Austrian architect († 2004 )
May 5 : Leo Lionni , graphic artist, painter and book author († 1999 )
May 20 : Margret Hofheinz-Döring , German painter († 1994 )
May 23 : Franz Kline , American painter († 1962 )

June 6 : Hélène de Beauvoir , French painter († 2001 )
June 7th : Pietro Annigoni , Italian painter († 1988 )
June 7th : Marion Post Wolcott , American photographer († 1990 )
June 11 : Theodore Lux Feininger , German-American photographer and painter († 2011 )
June 27 : Pierre Joubert , French draftsman and painter († 2002 )

Second half of the year

July 1 : Hans Nadler , German monument conservator and architect († 2005 )
July 18 : Max Meid , Frankfurt architect († 2009 )

August 1 : Gerda Taro , German photographer († 1937 )
August 14 : Willy Ronis , French photographer († 2009 )
August 20 : Eero Saarinen , Finnish-American architect († 1961 )
August 25 : Dorothea Tanning , American painter, sculptor and writer († 2012 )
August 27 : Max Weiler , Austrian painter († 2001 )

September 13 : Rolf Gutbrod , German architect († 1999 )
September 17 : Hilmar Pabel , German photographer and photo reporter († 2000 )

October 5 : Wolf Strache , German photographer, photo journalist and publisher († 2001 )
October 10 : Ramón Gaya , Spanish painter († 2005 )
October 10 : Julius Shulman , American architectural photographer († 2009 )
October 29 : Aurélie Nemours , French painter († 2005 )
October 30 : Thyra Hamann-Hartmann , German textile artist († 2005 )

November 4 : Walter Howard , German sculptor († 2005 )
November 17th : Jacqueline Lamba , French Abstract Expressionist painter († 1993 )
December 24th : Max Miedinger , Swiss graphic artist and typographer († 1980 )

Died

January 28 : Angelo Agostini , Italian-Brazilian draftsman and caricaturist (* 1843 )
February 1 : Antonín Slavíček , Czech painter (* 1870 )
March 21 : Johannes Schilling , German sculptor (* 1828 )

April 14th : Mikhail Alexandrovich Wrubel , Russian symbolism painter (* 1856 )
May 16 : Henri Edmond Cross , French painter (* 1856 )
May 18 : Franz Skarbina , German painter (* 1849 )

August 8 : Rudolf Epp , German painter of realism (* 1834 )
August 12 : Adolf Michaelis , German archaeologist (* 1835 )
August 20 : Otto Piltz , German painter (* 1846 )

September 2 : Henri Rousseau , French painter (* 1844 )
September 7 : William Holman Hunt , British painter (* 1827 )
September 29 : Winslow Homer , American painter (* 1836 )

Web links

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