Art year 1913

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Art year 1913
The Little Mermaid created by Edvard Eriksen is unveiled in Copenhagen harbor .

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition on the anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor , 1913

Events

architecture

September 13 : The New Royal Theater in Dresden , built by William Lossow and his son-in-law Max Hans Kühne in the neo- baroque and art nouveau style , opens after around two years of construction. As the building is in the immediate vicinity of the Zwinger , the exterior facing it was adapted to the architecture and provided with arcades and baroque decorative elements.

The old theater in Heilbronn shortly after its completion in 1912

September 30th : The city theater in Heilbronn , an Art Nouveau building built according to plans by Theodor Fischer , is inaugurated after around ten years of planning and one year of construction.

October 19 : The Vienna Konzerthaus opens in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Hotel Bellevue Palace

November 27 : In Bern the will of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin modeled Hotel Bellevue Palace opened. The building, which was rebuilt by Paul Lindt and Max Hoffmann after it was demolished, is a prime example of neoclassical reform architecture .

sculpture

August 23 : The Little Mermaid , created by Edvard Eriksen and the symbol of the city, is unveiled in Copenhagen . The artist was inspired by the figure of Jeanne d'Arc by Henri Chapu . He designed the head after the model of the prima ballerina Ellen Price , who was very popular in Copenhagen in 1909 as the leading actress in a ballet of the same name. The body was modeled after his wife Eline, as Price had refused to serve the artist as a nude model . The client is the art patron and son of the founder of the Copenhagen-based Carlsberg Brewery , Carl Jacobsen .

Völkerschlachtdenkmal

October 18 : After fifteen years of construction, the Battle of the Nations Monument near Leipzig, designed by the Berlin architect Bruno Schmitz , is inaugurated for the centenary of the battle in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II . The sculptures were designed by the sculptors Christian Behrens and Franz Metzner .

Women's monument in Bloemfontein

December 16 : In Bloemfontein , South Africa , the National Women's Monument designed by the architect Frans Soff and the sculptor Anton van Wouw is inaugurated. It commemorates the approximately 27,000 women and children who perished in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War . The central bronze sculpture on the obelisk was made by the British Emily Hobhouse .

The Italian futurist Umberto Boccioni creates the sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ( Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio ), which, like his paintings from the same year, deals with dynamics and movement.
Marcel Duchamp creates the bicycle wheel ( Roue de Bicyclette ) as the first objet trouvé and kinetic art object .

Museums and exhibitions

Armory Show , New York poster

February 17 to March 15 : The International Exhibition of Modern Art is shown in a National Guard armory in New York , an exhibition of modern art known as the Armory Show . The presentation of Marcel Duchamp's act, descending a staircase No. 2, triggers a scandal. Henri Matisse , who is already highly regarded in Europe , is also attacked by New York critics and the public.
February 23 : The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana is founded and opens on April 28 .

Dynamic of a cyclist

Franz Marc: The Tower of the Blue Horses , exhibition catalog # 272

The Italian Umberto Boccioni paints the futuristic painting Dynamic of a Cyclist in oil on canvas . In the same year he also created the works Dynamics of a Soccer Player , Dynamics of a Man's Head and Spiral Expansion of Muscles in Motion . They are all on the on September 20 under the direction of the gallery owner Herwarth Walden opened the First German Autumn Salon shown. Another painting presented here is The Tower of the Blue Horses by Franz Marc . The salon closes on December 1st .

More works of painting

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner paints the expressionist painting Five Women on the Street in oil on canvas in Berlin .

Blue portrait of Nikola Tesla

Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy paints the blue portrait of Nikola Tesla .

Others

Spring: Man Ray moves to an artists' colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey, where he meets the poet Adon Lacroix , whom he marries in May.
Tensions arise within the Berlin Secession : Chairman Paul Cassirer does not allow 13 mostly younger members to exhibit at the very successful summer exhibition. They then organize their own exhibition and do not follow the request to leave the Secession . Max Neumann , Ernst Oppler , Adolf Edward Herstein and Max Liebermann then agree to vote out Cassirer on June 6th . Ernst Oppler records the situation in the painting Consultations in the studio . Lovis Corinth takes the chair again, but around 40 artists leave the Secession .

Wyndham Lewis 1913

July: Roger Fry , a member of the Bloomsbury Group , founded with the help of his friends and co-directors Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and financial support of art lovers as George Bernard Shaw in one of Robert Adam created townhouse on Fitzroy Square in London, the experimental design workshop Omega Workshops with the aim of transferring modern art to interior design and book design . One of the first artists involved is Wyndham Lewis , who was developing his own art style , later known as Vorticism .

December 31 : The Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre after a two-year absence after being stolen in 1911 by the Italian craftsman Vincenzo Peruggia .

The Russian avant-garde Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov publishes the manifesto of rayonism .

The Linz artists' association MAERZ is created by splitting off from the Upper Austrian Art Association .

Members of the Camden Town Group set up The London Group . The founding fathers include David Bomberg , Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , Jacob Epstein , Charles Ginner , Spencer Gore , Percy Wyndham Lewis , John Nash , Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth . Harold Gilman becomes the first president of the artists' association.

Born

First half of the year

January 23 : Jean-Michel Atlan , French artist († 1960 )
January 30th : Amrita Sher-Gil , Indian-Hungarian artist († 1941 )

February 15 : Willy Vandersteen , Belgian comic artist († 1990 )
February 20 : Rolf Italiaander , German writer and art collector († 1991 )

March 30th : Marc Davis , American animator († 2000 )
April 5 : Antoni Clavé , Spanish painter and sculptor († 2005 )
April 5 : Ruth Smith , Faroese painter and graphic artist († 1958 )
April 15 : Manfred Schmidt , German comic artist and humorous travel writer († 1999 )
April 27 : Willy Schürmann , German painter and graphic artist († 2008 )

May 3 : Lothar Malskat , German painter and art forger († 1988 )
May 15 : Herbert Stockmann , German painter and graphic artist († 1947 )
May 18 : Charles Trenet , French singer, composer, poet and painter († 2001 )
May 24 : Peter Ellenshaw , English painter († 2007 )
May 24th : Roland Kohlsaat , German comic artist, illustrator and author († 1978 )
May 27th : Wols , German painter, draftsman, graphic artist († 1951 )

June 13 : Manfred Lehmbruck , German architect († 1992 )
June 18 : Clifford Coffin , American photographer († 1972 )

Second half of the year

August 15 : Heinz Trökes , German painter and graphic artist († 1997 )
August 25 : Walt Kelly , American animator and comic book artist († 1973 )
August 28 : Otto Greis , German informal art painter († 2001)
August 31 : Helen Levitt , American photographer and filmmaker († 2009 )

September 1 : Ludwig Merwart , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 1979 )
September 4 : Kenzō Tange , Japanese architect († 2005)
September 23 : Carl-Henning Pedersen , Danish painter († 2007)

October 6 : Meret Oppenheim , Swiss surrealist artist and poet († 1985 )
October 22 : Robert Capa , American photographer of Hungarian origin († 1954 )
October 27 : Rolf Geschäftsling , German gallery owner and architect († 1991)

November 5 : Gisela Andersch , German painter, graphic artist and collage artist († 1987 )
November 10 : Heinz Mellmann , German graphic artist and fairy tale illustrator († 1945 )

December 6th : Max G. Bollag , Swiss gallery owner († 2005)
December 9 : Fritz Graßhoff , German painter, draftsman, writer and songwriter († 1997)

Died

March 30th : Hans Arnold , German sculptor (* 1860 )
April 1 : Otto March , German architect (* 1845 )
April 27 : Gabriel von Seidl , German architect and representative of historicism (* 1848 )

June 27 : Josef Altheimer , German painter and draftsman (* 1860)
December 15 : Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach , German painter and social reformer (* 1851 )

Web links

Commons : Art 1913 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Photographien 1913 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Sculptures 1913 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files