Art year 1920

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Art year 1920
The Italian draftsman, painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani dies in Paris.	Piet Mondrian publishes his major work on art theory, Le Néo-Plasticisme .

Events

Exhibitions and museums

• April 30th : Katherine S. Dreier , Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp found Société Anonyme Inc. in New York City . The group organizes numerous exhibitions, readings, concerts and symposia on modernism and publishes numerous publications on them.

Johannes Theodor Baargeld : Typical vertical distortion as a representation of the Dada Baargeld . This alienated representation of Venus von Milo is shown in the exhibition.

• June 30th to August 25th : In the Dr. Otto Burchard in Berlin the First International Dada Fair takes place. With its exhibits, the fair is a rejection of bourgeois culture, but forms a documentation of the artistic creativity that the Dada revolt unleashed, and whose impulses inspire the further development of modern art.

• August Heckscher founds the Heckscher Museum of Art in Heckscher Park in Huntington on Long Island .

Art theory

• Piet Mondrian publishes his main work on art theory, Le Néo-Plasticisme, on the style of neo-plasticism with L'Effort Moderne by Léonce Rosenberg.
• Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler publishes his first art theoretical work The Way to Cubism .

Artist groups

• Adolf Hoffmeister , Jaroslav Seifert , Karel Teige and Vladislav Vančura found the avant-garde artist group Devětsil in Prague . The members are dedicated to proletarian art and so-called magical realism . The group takes part in the organization of artistic life in Bohemia and Moravia.

Born

• January 5 : Heinz Fülfe , German draftsman, puppeteer and ventriloquist († 1994 )
• January 6th : Jean Ipoustéguy , French sculptor († 2006 )
• January 14 : Luc-Peter Crombé , Belgian painter († 2005 )
• January 23 : Gottfried Böhm , German architect and sculptor
• January 30th : Hasegawa Machiko , Japanese manga artist († 1992 )

• February 19 : Josef Baron , German painter and sculptor († 2020 )
• February 23 : Walter E. Lautenbacher , German photographer († 2000 )

• March 12 : Teofila Reich-Ranicki , Polish-German artist († 2011 )
• March 21 : Rolando Arjona Amábilis , Mexican painter, sculptor, photographer and heraldic artist († 2014 )
• March 24th : René Acht , Swiss painter and graphic artist († 1998 )

• May 4th : Elizabeth Shaw , Irish artist († 1992 )
• May 12 : Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , German glass painter († 2010 )
• May 27 : Gabrielle Wittkop , French writer, artist, essayist and journalist († 2002 )

• June 9 : Sandro Angiolini , Italian comic artist and cartoonist († 1985 )
• June 16 : Gustav Adolf Baumm , German graphic artist, motorcycle designer and racing driver († 1955 )

• July 21 : Constant Nieuwenhuys , Dutch artist († 2005 )
• August 20 : Lisa Dräger , German patroness († 2015 )
• August 30 : Harald Deilmann , German architect and author († 2008 )

• September 24th : Georges Addor , Swiss architect († 1982 )
• September 28 : Alan Davie , Scottish painter and musician († 2014 )

• October 6 : Pietro Consagra , Italian sculptor († 2005 )
• October 11 : Kurt H. Aufrichtig , British art historian († 1989 )
• October 31 : Helmut Newton , German photographer († 2004 )

• November 14 : Hans Hansen , Faroese painter († 1970 )
• November 15 : Wayne Thiebaud , American painter

• December 4 : Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter († 2013 )
• December 18 : Enrique Grau , Colombian painter and sculptor († 2004 )
• December 18 : Ingálvur av Reyni , Faroese painter († 2005 )

Died

Date of death secured

Amedeo Modigliani's tombstone in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris

• January 24th : Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter, draftsman and sculptor (* 1884 )
• January 26 : Jeanne Hébuterne , French painter and model (* 1898 )

• March 3 : Theodor Philipsen , Danish painter (* 1840 )
• March 13 : Mary Devens , American photographer (* 1857 )

• July 4th : Max Klinger , German painter, etcher and sculptor (* 1857 )
• December 14th : Otto Wilhelm Scharenberg , German architect and town planner (* 1851 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Andrés Madariaga , Chilean painter (* 1878 )
• Max Moisel , German cartographer (* 1869 )

See also

Portal: Fine Arts  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of fine arts

Web links

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