Art year 1911
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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 Der Blaue Reiter has its first exhibition. |
Egon Schiele, Dead City III
Events
Styles
- Herwarth Walden coined the term expressionism .
- The Cubism splits into Salonkubisten and Galeriekubisten .
Bremen artist dispute
- January: Because Gustav Pauli , scientific director of Der Kunstverein in Bremen , bought the painting Poppy Field from Vincent van Gogh for the Kunsthalle Bremen , a “warning” appears in the Bremer Nachrichten . That is the impetus for the Bremen artist dispute .
- April 17 : The 80-page brochure A Protest German Artists by Carl Vinnen and others appears in the Bremen artists' dispute . In June an answer will appear under the title In the Battle for Art. The answer to the “protest of German artists” .
architecture
- May 11 : In Duisburg the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Theater Duisburg by architect Martin Dulfer . The foundation stone for the neoclassical building will be laid on June 27th .
- The Curiohaus in Hamburg is completed, built according to a design by the architect Johann Emil Schaudt for the Society of Friends of the Patriotic Schooling System and named after the founder of this society, Johann Carl Daniel Curio .
sculpture
- July 12 : The Fritz Reuter monument in Stavenhagen by sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider is unveiled.
painting
- Lovis Corinth paints the portrait of Carl Hagenbeck with the walrus Pallas in oil on canvas . A few months later, in December, he suffered a stroke.
- November / December: After a stay in Paris, Umberto Boccioni paints the picture La strada entra nella casa and initially titled it simply balcony .
- Franz Marc paints the watercolor horses in landscape . It is probably a study for the work The Big Blue Horses, written in the same year .
- Egon Schiele paints the expressionist painting Dead City III in oil on wood .
Exhibitions and museums
Miscellaneous
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon , Albert Gleizes , František Kupka , Fernand Léger , Jean Metzinger , Francis Picabia and Jacques Villon found the Puteaux Group . This spring has a much-discussed exhibition in the Salon des Indépendants . They are attributed to the style of cubism .
- March 25th : The Emperor Franz Joseph's Jubilee Artists' House opens in Brno with an exhibition by the Association of German-Moravian Visual Artists .
- May to June: The Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler (Sonderbund Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler) is holding its third exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf, subtitled Rhenish and French Art . 147 exhibits are shown, including 101 French works.
- June 21 to July 11 : The German gallery owner Paul Cassirer is exhibiting works by Oskar Kokoschka for the first time in the Café Park Schönbrunn in Karlsbad . There are around 30 paintings and eight illustrations for his poem The White Animal Slayer . The collector Karl Ernst Osthaus brings the exhibition to his private Folkwang Museum in Hagen and acquires a portrait with the title A Precious Woman .
New artists' association Munich / Der Blaue Reiter
- December 2nd : After a dispute provoked by him, Wassily Kandinsky leaves the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and founds the artists' association Der Blaue Reiter with Franz Marc .
- December 18 : After the break up of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München , both its last exhibition and the first of the Blauer Reiters editorial team opened on the same day , where Franz Marc, among others , showed his paintings Blue Horse , Horses in Landscape and The Yellow Cow .
- Pictures from the first exhibition of the Blue Rider
Henri Rousseau : The Chicken Farm , 1896/98
Franz Marc: Monkey Frieze , 1911
August Macke : The Storm , 1911
August Macke: Indians on Horses , 1911
Other events
- January 13 : An unemployed that have become Navy Koch stands in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum on Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch with a knife.
- August 21 : The portrait of the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by the 31-year-old Italian painter Vincenzo Peruggia . During the investigation, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and the painter Pablo Picasso came under suspicion.
Born
- February 20 : Hans Scholz , German writer, journalist and painter († 1988 )
- March 11th : Fritz Trautwein , Hamburg architect († 1993 )
- March 24 : Joseph Barbera , American animator and producer († 2006 )
- April 3 : Eugen Eckert , German sculptor and painter († 1998 )
- April 5 : Dieter Oesterlen , German architect and university professor († 1994 )
- May 3 : Heinrich Kiefer , German painter and graphic artist († 1980 )
- May 6 : Viktor Fogarassy , Austrian businessman and art collector († 1989 )
- May 15 : Max Frisch , Swiss architect and writer († 1991 )
- June 14 : Marcel Perincioli , Swiss sculptor († 2005 )
- June 16 : Georg Meistermann , German painter († 1990 )
- September 10 : Hans Baumgartner , Swiss photographer († 1996 )
- October 21 : Mary Blair , American artist († 1978 )
- October 25 : Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter († 1984 )
- October 31 : Hans Mennekes , German artist († 1983 )
- November 11 : Roberto Matta , Chilean surrealist painter († 2002 )
- November 20 : David Seymour , Polish photographer († 1956 )
- November 30th : Boris Taslitzky , French socialist realism painter († 2005 )
- December 10 : Anni Schaad , founder of the Langani fashion jewelry workshop († 1988 )
- December 25th : Louise Bourgeois , French painter and sculptor († 2010 )
- December 30th : Margret Thomann-Hegner , German painter and graphic artist († 2005 )
Died
- January 28 : Maurice Yvon , French architect (* 1857 )
- February 25 : Fritz von Uhde , German painter (* 1848 )
- March 5 : Gottlob Theuerkauf , German painter and lithographer (* 1833 )
- June 8 : Johannes Otzen , German architect (* 1839 )
- June 14 : Fedor Flinzer , German illustrator, educator and author (* 1832 )
- July 3 : Ernst Hoeltzer , German telegraph operator and photographer (* 1835 )
- August 3 : Reinhold Begas , German sculptor and painter (* 1831 )
- August 12 : Jozef Israëls , Dutch painter (* 1827 )
- August 22 : Theodor Scheimpflug , discoverer of the photographic rule (* 1865 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1911 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Photographien 1911 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Sculptures 1911 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files