Art year 1936
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
sculpture
- May: On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the city of Buenos Aires , the Obelisk of Buenos Aires is erected.
photography
- Henry Luce founds Life Magazine for photojournalism in New York .
painting
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June 11 : In London starts Art Exhibition International Surrealist Exhibition , which the British public works of Surrealism presents. The success of the exhibition is reflected in the number of visitors. The queues at the entrance counter are so long on opening day that traffic on Piccadilly comes to a standstill. The exhibition will be visited by 30,000 interested people until July 4th and will be accompanied by the following lectures:
- June 16 : André Breton : Limites non Frontières du Surréalisme
- June 19 : Herbert Read : Art and the Unconscious
- June 24th : Paul Éluard : La Poésie Surréaliste
- June 26 : Hugh Sykes Davies : Biology and Surrealism
- July 1st : Salvador Dalí : Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques
- American Abstract Artists is founded in New York City to promote abstract art .
Olympic games
- August 1st to 16th : Art competitions will be held again at the Summer Olympics in Berlin .
Born
- January 9 : Philip John Kennedy Burton , British ornithologist and animal illustrator
- January 29 : Patrick Caulfield , British pop artist († 2005 )
- February 12th : Martial Raysse , French artist of the Nouveau Réalisme
- March 6 : Jorge Abbondanza , Uruguayan cultural journalist, critic and artist
- March 15 : Francisco Ibáñez , Spanish cartoonist
- March 31 : Aung Thwin , Myanmar sculptor
- May 12 : Frank Stella , American painter and sculptor
- May 15 : Ralph Steadman , British author, illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist
- May 17th : Károly Klimó , Hungarian painter and graphic artist
- June 10 : Thomas Höpker , German photographer
- June 19 : Zacharias Heinesen , Faroese painter
- July 9 : Helmut Ackermann , German graphic artist and painter († 2017 )
- July 17 : Tao Ho , architect and designer from Hong Kong († 2019 )
- July 25 : Glenn Murcutt , Australian architect
- August 1 : Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer († 2008 )
- October 4th : Christopher Alexander , architect, architectural theorist and book author
- October 9 : Jan Voss , German artist
- October 22nd : Peter Cook , British architect and author
- October 23 : HP Zimmer , German painter and sculptor († 1992 )
- October 28 : Horst Antes , German painter
- Else Winnewisser , German painter and graphic artist
Died
- January 19 : Gonzalo Carrasco Espinosa , Mexican clergyman and religious painter (* 1859 )
- June 14 : Hans Poelzig , German painter and architect (* 1869 )
- October 9 : Emil Artur Longen , Czech director, dramaturge, painter, author (* 1885 )
- October 30 : Ferdynand Ruszczyc , Polish painter (* 1870 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1936 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
