Art year 1917

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Art year 1917
Amedeo Modigliani paints the series of nudes Nu couché , which causes a scandal.
The French painter and sculptor Auguste Rodin dies.

Fountain , photo by Alfred Stieglitz (1917)

Events

United States

The Richard Mutt Case in The Blind Man No. 2

April 10 : On the occasion of the opening of the Society of Independent Artists' first exhibition, the first issue of the dada's magazine The Blind Man appears in New York with contributions by the British writer Mina Loy . The magazine is published by Marcel Duchamp , Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood . Due to a lost bet, the magazine will be discontinued after the second issue.
April: The ready-made fountain by Marcel Duchamp , one with “R. Mutt "signed commercial urinal from a plumbing shop , is rejected by the board of the Society of Independent Artists . The non-exhibition leads to a controversy about the concept of art . The work, of which only one photo still exists, is one of the key works of modern art today .

France / Spain

January: The magazine of Dadaism and incipient surrealism, published by the French artist Francis Picabia , named 391, appears for the first time in Barcelona.

Jeanne Hébuterne au chapeau by Amedeo Modigliani

April: The Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani meets the art student Jeanne Hébuterne in Paris and ends her relationship with the poet and art critic Beatrice Hastings because of her .

Amedeo Modigliani exhibition 1917 Berthe Weill

December 3 : The first solo exhibition with works by Amedeo Modigliani opens with a vernissage in Berthe Weill's gallery in Paris . At the request of the police, the exhibition had to end a little later because the pictures, including the oil paintings Nu couché ( reclining nude ) and reclining female nude on a white pillow , commissioned by Leopold Zborowski , are too revealing.

German Empire

Because of the war, the Great Berlin Art Exhibition is relocated from Berlin to the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf . Artists from the Berlin Secession and artists from the Free Secession are also included .

Netherlands

Red and blue chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld , 1917

The Dutch artist group De Stijl is founded. It is committed to a geometric-abstract, "ascetic" form of representation in art and architecture and a purism limited to functionality , which, similar to the German Bauhaus , to which there is a close relationship in terms of ideas and art history, principles for an aesthetic that can be applied to all areas of design sets up. Founding members are the painter and art theorist Theo van Doesburg , the painters Piet Mondrian and Georges Vantongerloo , the architects Robert van't Hoff , JJP Oud and Jan Wils , the painters Vilmos Huszár and Bart van der Leck , and the poet Antony Kok . Your ideas are influenced by Cubism and Wassily Kandinsky's art-theoretical publications . The concern of the group is to completely turn away from the representation principles of traditional art and to work out a new, completely abstract design language based on the variation of a few elementary principles of visual design (horizontal / vertical, large / small, light / dark and the primary colors). That means the reduction of colors to the three primary colors red, yellow and blue as well as the non-colors black, gray and white. De Stijl's concepts are not only effective in the fine arts and architecture, but also in the design of furniture and other everyday objects. The art newspaper De Stijl will appear from July 16 .

Born

Date of birth saved

January 5 : Wieland Wagner , German opera director and set designer († 1966 )
February 16 : Adalbert Pilch , Austrian painter and graphic artist († 2004 )

March 6th : Will Eisner , American comic artist († 2005 )
March 14 : Gerhard Müller-Menckens , German architect and university lecturer († 2007 )
March 24th : Constantin Andreou , Greek-French painter and sculptor († 2007 )

April 6 : Leonora Carrington , British-Mexican painter and writer († 2011 )
April 9 : Rolf Kauka , German comic artist and publisher (father of Fix and Foxi ) († 2000 )
April 16 : Charlotte Salomon , German painter († 1943 )
April 26 : Ieoh Ming Pei , Chinese-American architect († 2019 )

May 12 : Rika Unger , German sculptor († 2002 )
May 24 : Florence Knoll , American designer and architect († 2019 )

June 12 : Gottfried Honegger , Swiss graphic artist, painter and sculptor († 2016 )
June 15 : Lillian Bassman , American painter and photographer († 2012 )
June 18 : Rudolf Angelides , Austrian architect († 2000 )

July 12 : Andrew Wyeth , American painter († 2009 )
July 17 : Gus Arriola , American comic artist († 2008 )

August 11 : Dik Browne , American comic artist († 1989 )
August 12 : Adolf Burger , eyewitness of the counterfeiting workshop of Sachsenhausen concentration camp and survivor of several concentration camps († 2016 )
August 19 : Hermann Aichinger , Austrian architect († 1965 )
August 28 : Jack Kirby , American comic artist († 1994 )

September 25 : Heimo Kuchling , Austrian art theorist († 2013 )
October 5 : Robert Adams , British sculptor († 1984 )
October 19 : Yevgenia Petrovna Antipowa , Soviet-Russian painter and art teacher († 2009 )
October 31 : Heinz Musculus , German caricaturist, draftsman and illustrator († 1976 )

November 7 : Lev Efimowitsch Kerbel , Soviet sculptor († 2003 )
November 11th : Sepp Arnemann , German cartoonist († 2010 )
December 19 : Eduardo Catalano , Argentine architect († 2010 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Mashal , Afghan miniature painter († 1998 )

Died

Date of death secured

January 1 : Agnes Dean Abbatt , American painter (* 1847 )
January 6th : Carl Leonhard Becker , German painter and engraver (* 1843 )
January 15 : Alfredo Lobos , Chilean painter (* 1890 )
January 20 : Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans , Spanish painter (* 1843 )
January 24th : Hermann Schubert , German sculptor (* 1831 )

February 10 : John William Waterhouse , British painter (* 1849 )
February 17th : Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran , French painter (* 1837 )

April 23 : Robert Koehler , German-American painter (* 1850 )
May 5 : Richard Leopold Oskar Anders , German sculptor and university lecturer (* 1853 )

June 17th : Ernst Stöhr , Austrian painter, poet and musician (* 1860 )
July 20 : Ignaz Sowinski , Austrian architect (* 1858 )

August 12 : Gustav Kampmann , German painter and graphic artist (* 1859 )
August 20 : Alexander Georg Aster , German architect and non-fiction author (* 1849 )

September 20 : José Gallegos y Arnosa , Spanish painter, sculptor and architect (* 1859 )

The grave of the de Gas family on the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris

September 27th : Edgar Degas , French painter and sculptor (* 1834 )
October 1 : Ivan Aguéli , Swedish wanderer, painter and author (* 1869 )

November 12th : Hans Bachmann , Swiss painter (* 1852 )
November 17th : Auguste Rodin , French painter and sculptor (* 1840 )
November 22 : Teobert painter , Austrian photographer, discoverer and researcher of Mayan ruins (* 1842 )

December 21 : Wilhelm Trübner , German landscape painter (* 1851 )
December 25th : Karl Voll , German art historian (* 1867 )
December 31 : Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg , German sculptor (* 1856 )

Exact date of death unknown

Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz , Polish painter (* 1861 )

Web links

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